Why did Google decide to close Google Reader or how popular is RSS?
Starting today, when you access Google Reader, you will be warned that the site will be closed from July 1, 2013.
You have several months to transfer all your savings to some other service.
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Obviously, Google does not consider syndication as something important and necessary on the modern Internet, but unlike Yandex, which integrated the Lenta.yandex.ru reader with mail , Google completely refuses to support this format.
Most likely the company decided that RSS remained a geek standard, to the use of which it is almost impossible to connect new users. Statistics for its individual services, Google does not disclose. But publicly available statistics show that the number of Google Reader users moving from it to other sites is not something that does not grow, but even falls:
(this is the conversion statistics from Google Reader to Lenta.ru)
It seems that in the near future it remains only to forget about webmasters, who are much more concerned about the presentation of their sites in social networks, and we will see the decline of yet another format that has lost the support of market players.
You have several months to transfer all your savings to some other service.
')
Obviously, Google does not consider syndication as something important and necessary on the modern Internet, but unlike Yandex, which integrated the Lenta.yandex.ru reader with mail , Google completely refuses to support this format.
Most likely the company decided that RSS remained a geek standard, to the use of which it is almost impossible to connect new users. Statistics for its individual services, Google does not disclose. But publicly available statistics show that the number of Google Reader users moving from it to other sites is not something that does not grow, but even falls:
(this is the conversion statistics from Google Reader to Lenta.ru)
It seems that in the near future it remains only to forget about webmasters, who are much more concerned about the presentation of their sites in social networks, and we will see the decline of yet another format that has lost the support of market players.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/172673/
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