{"id":6750,"date":"2017-04-07T17:51:16","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T17:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=6750"},"modified":"2017-04-07T17:51:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T17:51:16","slug":"linked-laugh-it-up-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/04\/07\/linked-laugh-it-up-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Laugh It Up Google&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3212,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.cjchilvers.com\\\/blog\\\/laugh-it-up-google&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250711113254\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.cjchilvers.com\\\/blog\\\/laugh-it-up-google\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 03:18:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-11 01:51:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-14 00:01:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-22 12:56:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 01:42:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 14:51:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 14:51:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjchilvers.com\/blog\/laugh-it-up-google\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via CJ Chilvers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Today (April Fools Day) we&#8217;re reminded how much time and money Google spends on gags. A fraction of that money would have been enough to support Google Reader.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Google Reader (2005-2013) was the RSS service most regular people used to read blogs. But RSS is an open format. At its heart, Google is an ad company, and if you didn&#8217;t directly use Google Reader in your browser (if you used an app of your choosing), Google couldn&#8217;t throw ads at you and trap you in a Google+ walled garden like Facebook (which Google had an obsession with at the time). So, they killed it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Private companies can do what they want with their own services. I&#8217;m not arguing that. But instead of trying to find a way to make a buck off the service, Google chased the mega bucks they knew Facebook would eventually enjoy. In short, they bet against their users to please potential advertisers. That, I can&#8217;t abide.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I work at a Google Competitor and a recent personal example is them putting Pac-Mac inside of their Maps Product. They spend a lot of money being way too edgy while killing off services like Google Reader to seemingly prop up April fools humor.<\/p>\n<p>Like all of my tech friends, we\u2019ve found Reader alternatives. I host my own RSS server and you should too but it was a staple among people who consumed news without any of the web fluff. No javascript, trackers, little adverts, just text &amp; a photo. RSS is the best way to consume news and most people don\u2019t know what it is and I think Google kept awareness pretty high. Killing it off put a stake in the heart of any chances for RSS to go mainstream. Some would argue RSS\u2019s chances of mainstream success sailed long before Reader was sunset but we\u2019ll never know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via CJ Chilvers: Today (April Fools Day) we&#8217;re reminded how much time and money Google spends on gags.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-04-07T17:51:23Z","apple_news_api_id":"01c75d4c-ed4a-427f-a020-d52e74edc8bf","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-04-07T17:51:23Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AAcddTO1KQn-gINUudO3Ivw","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":["https:\/\/news-api.apple.com\/sections\/a6dbab72-c794-3987-8514-c419907b32a3"],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1KS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5986,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/07\/21\/linked-read-more-blogs\/","url_meta":{"origin":6750,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Read more blogs&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"July 21, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via Seth Godin: Here's the thing: Google doesn't want you to read blogs. They shut down their RSS reader and they're dumping many blog subscriptions into the gmail promo folder, where they languish unread. And Facebook doesn't want you to read blogs either. They have cut back the organic sharing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3946,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2013\/07\/02\/why-im-so-choked-up-about-google-reader\/","url_meta":{"origin":6750,"position":1},"title":"\u2605 Why I&#8217;m so Choked up about Google Reader","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"July 2, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I remember using NetNewsWire on my G3 iBook back in the day. I think we were all on 10.2 Jaguar and you'd add feeds to NetNewsWire and there was no syncing with a second computer but I loved the offline syncing. 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