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Why are they shutting it down? I mean heaps of people must still use it. I bet a shit load of people use for Google Alerts as well, lots of businesses. Far if
by Matsta 14y ago
Why are they shutting it down? I mean heaps of people must still use it. I bet a shit load of people use for Google Alerts as well, lots of businesses.
Far if it costed too much, i bet people would be happy to fork out $10 a year for it?
I've been using it daily for the past 4 years, to be honest nothing comes that close to it, and most likely the majority of people who use RSS readers use Google Reader.
Also now most of the iOS/Android apps are fucked now since they all use Google Reader.
Tldr; Google are dongies.
- duncan_bayne 14y ago> Why are they shutting it down? Because they would rather that you use Google+. The writing was on the wall when they started disabling features a year or two ago.
- Matsta 14y agoThey should shut down Google search as well while there at it, and redirect it to Google+.
- dictum 14y agoDon't give them ideas.
- talleyrand 14y agoBut the thing is that Google+ is wholly different experience. It's not about quickly consuming large amounts of information.
- pan69 14y agoHow are you supposed to use RSS with G+? Wouldn't that be a mess?
- Matsta 14y agoG+ is already a mess, so wouldn't make much of a difference.
- duncan_bayne 14y agoSorry, I was unclear; I meant use G+ instead of RSS feeds.
- pan69 14y agoBut that wouldn't be up to me, that would be up the feed publishers to use G+ instead of RSS. :)
- irickt 14y agoIt's also about driving writers to Google+.