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Re:Google Reader shutting down by rbrcurtis on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @07:34PM (#5371875)
If it was an issue of ad views all they'd have to do is add an ad bar at the top ala gmail.
Re:Google Reader shutting down by saurik on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @07:42PM (#5371935)
I think at that point, content creators being aggregated by Google--who are already have a fairly stressful relationship with Google--might accumulate too much ammunition to use against them (as then Google would be directly profiting from aggregating and redistributing content from third-parties in a modified presentation).