I had someone a few years previous say they had never seen a bigger Google fanboy.
With the death of Reader I pretty much slowly pulled away and barely use Google anything these days.
Another commentor mentioned, it was the reason. This was right in the middle of the push for Google+.
It was never explocitly stated as a reason, but Google+ Pages rolled out just before or after Reader qas killed and its clear that the intention qas to drive content producers to run Pages for their blogs and websites instead of just letting people use RSS. Also, they wanted to encourage users to go to Plus and Pages to get feeds, bot RSS.
Google had killed a lot of other products but this was the first that clearly felt incredibly malicious and was the start of the end of "Don't be evil."
I had someone a few years previous say they had never seen a bigger Google fanboy.
With the death of Reader I pretty much slowly pulled away and barely use Google anything these days.
Another commentor mentioned, it was the reason. This was right in the middle of the push for Google+.
It was never explocitly stated as a reason, but Google+ Pages rolled out just before or after Reader qas killed and its clear that the intention qas to drive content producers to run Pages for their blogs and websites instead of just letting people use RSS. Also, they wanted to encourage users to go to Plus and Pages to get feeds, bot RSS.
Google had killed a lot of other products but this was the first that clearly felt incredibly malicious and was the start of the end of "Don't be evil."