Google has just announced that it ’ll be pop off Google Reader in its latest ‘ spring cleaning ’ , which is a euphemism for getting disembarrass of products that not enough people apply ( even if they still love using it ) . So yes , that means many hoi polloi ’s favorite RSS reader will be rick off for good on July 1 , 2013 . You have a little over three month to reckon out where to get your provender fix next .
Google is getting rid of Reader because as a company , Google is “ pouring all of [ it ’s ] energy into fewer products . ” Google explain the death of Reader :
We launched Google Reader in 2005 in an effort to make it well-to-do for citizenry to discover and keep tabs on their pet web site . While the product has a loyal chase , over the years utilization has declined . So , on July 1 , 2013 , we will retire Google Reader . Users and developer interested in RSS alternative can export their datum , including their subscriptions , with Google Takeout over the course of the next four calendar month .
The written material has been on the paries for RSS clients in world-wide as Twitter and other social networks have grown best at delivering the news . But still , the die hards who were still using Google Reader every daytime ( and there ’s a lot of them ! ) will have to figure out a brand novel Internet indication routine hail July . That ’s never fun .
for verify you do n’t fall behind any of your RSS feeds , you could download all your Google Reader information with Google Takeout . Your feed will be stack away in a XML file and various data like the people you follow , item you ’ve starred , etc . will be stored in a JSON file . you could learn more about how to keep your Google Reader datahere . [ Google ]
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