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> Sadly, RSS is like many other platforms without a default client. While that may be true, I'll bet that almost everyone has a decent client. For example, IE
by anamax 15y ago
> Sadly, RSS is like many other platforms without a default client.
While that may be true, I'll bet that almost everyone has a decent client.
For example, IE7-9 all have RSS readers. Yes, they manage and create subscriptions. The RSS icon turns orange and becomes active when there's a feed available on the current page.
I'll bet that the other major browsers do as well or better.
- sp332 15y agoFirefox 4 removed the RSS icon from the address bar on pages that have RSS feeds. Chrome doesn't even have an RSS parser now.
- jarek 15y agoSorry to hear. Opera has an RSS icon in address bar and a built-in RSS reader. Subscribing to a feed is three clicks: first on the icon, second on the feed to use (admittedly problematic), third on Subscribe button on feed preview page.
- maigret 15y agoI guess this is not in the interest of Google to promote free and decentralized information systems - how can they then analyze it and sell ads with that. They rather push a centralized stream à la Google+.
- adambyrtek 15y agoGoogle search indexes and analyzes the whole web, which is by definition a decentralised information system. How would popularisation of RSS negatively affect their business? Not to mention that Google Reader is still the best web RSS client out there.
- maigret 15y agoWell then why do they want to close it?
- adambyrtek 15y ago1) Why did they create it in the first place? 2) Nobody said they want to close it. 3) The burden is on you to provide a proof for your conspiracy theory.
- maigret 15y agoActually it was just an opinion from me, I may have expressed myself a bit wrong on the words. But I suppose it is so. I won't be able to "prove" it as I have no insider access to Google executives. 1. They probably created it like one of the many products they did without a profit purpose at the beginning. Even with search, they didn't know where to head before a few years. 2. Right. I was just trying to explain why there could be rumors. They are closing a lot of services that aren't key to their business, though. I can understand that from a financial point of view very well. They may also want to consolidate the brand, and making it easier to grasp for non-geeks. All valuable goals. 3. "Conspiracy theory" is a big word. Think again about it. Companies try to move markets to their products, sometime using offensive methods. Remember Google suspended whole accounts (including Gmail, Gdocs) because users used pseudonyms on Google Plus. They're definitely serious about G+. But I won't search literacy on that topic for you. The world out here is competitive and brutal, that's all. EDIT - Reformatted blank lines
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