As per usual, Google put out various, elaborate April Fools' Day jokes, which only reminded everyone how much time and money the tech company has to spend on projects that aren't core products like, ahem, Google Reader.
Google has finally announced its note-taking "Evernote" killer Google Keep, which looks great and useful from this little video preview, but there is a lingering worry that like other beloved products (ahem: Reader) Google might go ahead and kill this one off someday, too.
Google's official execution date for the beloved RSS feed isn't until July 1, but the search company has already started erasing Reader's presence, removing it from the drop-down bar and its list of services it offers.
The cult of news junkies who can't believe Google shut down its RSS feed have started theorizing about why Reader had to go, considering the people who used it loved it so much.
Here's a little light at the end of a dark Google reader tunnel: Because of Reader's demise the people behind news aggregation site Digg have sped up their own RSS plans to get fans a feed before Google Reader's July 1 death date.
Now that the very dedicated RSS-reading masses have had a night to mourn the loss of Google Reader, it's time to look forward to the future of news consumption. Here's how to survive.
Journalists and geeks united in exasperation on Wednesday evening when Google made a very sad announcement: The company is shuttering Google Reader. We should've seen this coming.
Just over a month after the dustup caused by axing some features in Reader, the new Google Currents news app brings custom-made editions from over 150 media partners, RSS feeds and Google+ streams into one Flipboard-like interface.
Worried that Google Reader will fall "victim to fashion," Kevin Fox is willing to drop everything in order to save the product he designed, and his friends want him to fix Gmail while he's at it.
Believe it or not, the outrage over the new Google Reader design is leaking out of the Sharebro circles and becoming rather deafening.
After ten days of hemming and hawing, Google is ready to address — but not apologize to — those users upset by the death of Reader's social features.
As previously announced, Google is rolling out a sleek new design and pulling the plug on Reader's social features at the end of the day on Monday.
One code-savvy, soon-to-be-former Google Reader user would rather create a new site for the RSS-feeds than switch to Google+.
The demise of Google Reader's share features is affecting everyone from RSS-junkies to Iranian freedom fighters, and many of them are very displeased.
Sometime this week, Google Reader will retire its social features many confusing sharing features, forcing their small but passionate community to relocate to Google+.
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