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Re:RIP Google Reader by kergonath on Thursday March 25, 2021 @02:20PM (#26583584)
That is not quite accurate. They’ve always killed stuff randomly. My personal issues at the time were Sparrow (an amazing email app on iPhone, killed when they bought the developer), Google Wave, Google Talk (they were already a headless chicken as far as IM was concerned; Google Talk was interoperable with other servers and we used it quite a lot), Google Video.

Other notable cancellations before Google Reader were Google Buzz, Google Code search, Google Desktop, and Google Labs. There were dozens of others.

They have always been as focused as a squirrel on drugs.

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Re:RIP Google Reader by smeej on Thursday March 25, 2021 @10:20PM (#26588158)
To this day I've yet to use any social media as much as I used sharing Google Reader articles on Google Buzz.

My little circle of friends just caught the thing right at the right time, and we loved it hard!

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Re:RIP Google Reader by corobo on Thursday March 25, 2021 @09:44PM (#26587948)
Oh man, I used to check labs so often. God damn Google became a proper fallen empire of a company 'eh
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