They gave users a sunset period until July 1, 2013, to move their data and suggested: 'If you want to retain your Reader data, including subscriptions, you can do so through Google Takeout.' Īfter the closure announcement, Feedly said that more than 500,000 new users had joined them in the following 48 hours, and 3 million in the following two weeks.

On March 13, 2013, Google announced they were discontinuing Google Reader, stating the product had a loyal but declining following, and they wanted to focus on fewer products. In September 2007 product marketing manager Kevin Systrom (later, founder of Instagram) announced that Google Reader had graduated out of Google Labs. In January 2007 Google added video content from YouTube and Google Video to Reader. This also marked the addition of a sharing feature, which allowed readers to publish interesting items for other people to see. In September 2006 Google announced a redesign for Reader that included new features such as unread counts, the ability to 'mark all as read', a new folder-based navigation, and an expanded view so people could quickly scan over several items at once. After working at Google he began a similar project with a small team that launched an improved product on October 7, 2005, as Google Reader. In early 2001, software engineer Chris Wetherell began a project he called 'JavaCollect' that served as a news portal based on web feeds. Google closed Google Reader on July 1, 2013, citing declining use. Google Reader grew in popularity to support a number of programs which used it as a platform for serving news and information to people. It was created in early 2005 by Google engineer Chris Wetherell and launched on October 7, 2005, through Google Labs. Google Reader was an RSS/Atom feed aggregator operated by Google. Interface in Google Reader's final version

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