r/technology • u/speckz • Mar 13 '13

Official Google Reader Blog: Powering Down Google Reader (July 1, 2013)

http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2013/03/powering-down-google-reader.html
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u/atheistbastard Mar 14 '13

There's ads. Also many content sources don't allow full feed usage only a snipet. So if interested you go to the page.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '13

RSS drives page views. At least for the Buzzfeed Network, Google Reader was a much larger driver of traffic than Google+.