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> Yes, but it wasn't in Google's commercial interest. Running Reader as a "side project" is not just distracting to senior management, but also creates legal, t
by cabalamat 13y ago
> Yes, but it wasn't in Google's commercial interest. Running Reader as a "side project" is not just distracting to senior management, but also creates legal, technical, and reputation risks which can bite back on their much larger businesses.
If that was the case, couldn't Google have sold the site to someone else, instead of scrapping it?
- arkem 13y agoThe amount of effort to decouple Reader from Google's internal infrastructure is not trivial. I'm an engineer and not a business person but I imagine that finding someone to buy Reader and then executing the deal would also be non-trivial.