Google Reader – A Place To Read Feeds

Saturday 8 October 2005 @ 6:56 pm

Google Reader
Well, usually I will avoid writing the same news others have already posted, but this is too big as a news for all bloggers and blog readers as well. Even if I write about the same news, I will try to get as much extra information or links to add some value to my post.

Anyway, Google has just launched its latest service, Google Reader. I lost count how many new services has Google launched in this year. Basically, Google Reader is like a one-stop online feed reader, which allows you to subscribe to any website with any form of feeds (RSS or Atom) then read them online.

I ain’t going to write a review of Google Reader, instead just to give you some idea what are the basic features. Other than subscribing to the feeds that you have known from the website that you visit often, you can search and subscribe to new feeds too. For example, as shown in the following figure, say you want to subscribe to feeds regarding mobile phone, the search will give a list of famous websites’ feeds.

The feeds that you have read will automatically go into Read Items list. Besides, you may assign a star to some feeds you feel need to be highlighted as well. You may import your current feeds list from other feed reader such as Bloglines, the format of the list is OPML format, which is compatible with Google Reader.

Too bad Google Reader does not integrate Google Blog Search into the search function, and it still has a lot to improve to match its competitors like Bloglines, etc. Well, Google understands the importance of users’ feedback, thus, they have already set up a discussion group for Google Reader. If you have any suggestions or complaints, I suppose they will be more than willing to hear it.

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