A top-interest browser issue for Google was a feature request to add RSS support to Chrome. The RSS reader extension was one illustration. The writing has been on the wall for Google Reader for a long time. Those of you who want regular-expression handling in Google Docs: forget it. With each passing year, Google becomes more of a consumer products and services organization, aiming for the mainstream and not the nerdy technophiles it likes to hire.
RSS never drew much in the way of mainstream usage, and while some place the blame for that irrelevance at Google's feet for all but ceasing Google Reader development, I'm not convinced RSS was really ever a great tool for ordinary folks. Google may be resurrecting Google Reader inside Chrome with 'Follow' buttonīut I'm not surprised that Google is scrapping it.I'm one of the people who bemoans the loss of Google Reader, since I use it daily to scan countless news sites and blogs for the latest updates and think it reduces the friction of information flow around the world. According to the unofficial Google Operating System blog, it's based on Google's own RSS extension for Chrome, and based on my tests works identically so far. The extension would detect Web sites' feeds then let people use a variety of RSS reader services to subscribe to those feeds.įor those who want to replace Chrome's reader extension, one option that seems to be actively maintained is the RSS Subscription Extension.
Google announced that it's scrapping Google Reader on July 1, but it's already gone ahead and withdrawn the feed-finding Chrome extension. RSS and the similar Atom technology make it easier for people to subscribe to regular updates published on Web sites, and Google Reader was a popular way for people to read that content. Google's decision to kill its Google Reader service has caused some collateral damage: the end of a related Chrome extension that let the browser handle RSS feeds.
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