Re:Sorry Google; you can Keep it to yourself
by signed0 on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @11:20PM
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Keep and Reader are built for different groups of users. Reader was a niche product used by a small (but vocal) subset of all Google users. Keep is a product built for everyone.
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Re:Sorry Google; you can Keep it to yourself
by just2n on Thursday March 21, 2013 @01:13AM
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It also turns out that Keep will provide them with a LOT more information about users that advertisers would pay through the nose to obtain.
Reader.. not so much.
Re:Sorry Google; you can Keep it to yourself
by corresation on Thursday March 21, 2013 @09:54AM
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Reader.. not so much.
How so? Show me someone's blog subscriptions, and then metrics on entries they clicked on, how long they viewed it, and the clicks that they followed, and I could quickly get a very accurate profile of the person.
Re:Sorry Google; you can Keep it to yourself
by just2n on Thursday March 21, 2013 @02:29PM
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Assuming people were to ONLY use this for todo lists, that would be infinitely more useful than what feeds and stories a person is interested in. They probably also get a lot of that information already with Google News and Google Analytics.
I suspect there will be a lot more than just todo lists, so the possibilities are really endless.