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I am sure not everyone agrees with me, but I believe Google single-handedly killed RSS by first creating Google Reader and using their power to make it ubiquito
by smnrchrds 6y ago
I am sure not everyone agrees with me, but I believe Google single-handedly killed RSS by first creating Google Reader and using their power to make it ubiquitous and then killing it when there was no competition left.
- falcolas 6y agoDon't forget about removing native RSS support from their browser. Combined with the knock on effects of other browsers removing support "because Google did it" or "because Google Reader is the de-facto RSS reader" hurt RSS even more.
- beernutz 6y agoI am not sure where this "RSS is dead" keeps coming from, but I still use it quite happily every day.
- falcolas 6y agoFor sites that offer it, sure. I use it frequently with podcasts too. But the number of sites, and the easy availability of readers for it (it was built into all of the major browsers at one point), have both decreased dramatically since the early naughts. If 10% of sites offer RSS feeds, I'd personally be quite surprised.
- teh_klev 6y agoI know there are alternatives, but Google Reader just worked for me and I'm still, to this day yet, quite salty that they killed it.
- benhurmarcel 6y agoThere was never as many options as today for reading RSS before Google Reader went away. Killing it opened the market and we got innovation.
- chii 6y agoI don't believe it's entirely google's "fault" for the downfall of RSS. Websites tend to not like to have RSS support due to it directing traffic away, and thus, denying ad revenue. It also allows easier aggregation from competitors/third-parties, which also denies ad revenue. Therefore, RSS is, at most, implemented as a short excerpt, with the intention to direct the user to visit the website.