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Google Reader: Facts and Figures.

The Google Reader update last week spawned a number of articles on well-known information resources on this product. Based on several of them, this post was written.
So, interesting facts and figures about Google Reader.

* Google Reader divides rss feeds into two types:
- threads that have only one subscriber (two thirds of all threads) are updated every three hours;
- threads that have more than one subscriber are updated hourly.

* Google Reader uses 10 TB for storing all streaming data.

* Google Reader tracks 8 million streams.
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* Google Reader is the only rss aggregator that stores the entire history of all streams.
For example, For example, this link will return the last 100 posts from the specified blog as an ATOM / XML file.

* Many Google applications use the Google Reader framework for threads: iGoogle, orkut, Gmail web clips, Blogger widgets, Google Spreadsheets, Ajax API .

* Index size grows by 4% every week.

* 70% of traffic comes from Firefox users (most of the audience are geeks)

* Gmail and orkut are the only Google apps that have a higher display / user ratio than Google Reader

* Search requires large computational resources. Google Reader uses 2 indexes to search:
- a large tree, updated twice a day (150 machines, 600 million documents)
- 40 small trees for fresh posts updated every 5 minutes (40 cars, 40 million documents)

* Easter egg in Google Reader:
1. Open Google Reader .
2. Go to Settings-> Goodies and drag the Next button to the bookmarks bar. This button is designed to go to the next unread item, but outside of Google Reader ... it just goes to the next article on the site.
3. After you do not have any unread articles, click on the “Next” button and you will see an Easter egg, which can also be seen by clicking on this link :

4. “The end of the Internet” ( hussars, to be silent - pon. ) Is located at this address .

Also, according to rumors, in the near future, developers plan to add social opportunities (such as commenting on the basis of existing subscriptions), as well as to ensure closer interaction with AdWords.

Based on:
Google Operating System
Cybernet

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/14008/


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