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Re:RIP Google Reader by nextaccountic on Thursday March 25, 2021 @09:53PM (#26588004)
> I also see it as the marker for the turning point from "Google embraces the open web and web standards" to "Google likes proprietary walled gardens now"

This and when GTalk moved off XMPP.

Re:RIP Google Reader by squarefoot on Friday March 26, 2021 @12:34AM (#26588780)
And when they removed the discussion filter from searches, so that looking for opinions on a product from blogs/forums suddenly became next to impossible without being inundated by results of shops advertising that product. The technical cost of leaving that filter in place would have been zero, but apparently there were other priorities; that was the day everything cool I associated with Google ceased to exist.