Google Reader , Google's RSS reader, will stop working as of July 1, 2013. The application, which was launched in 2005, had enough users who accessed it to read information and updated content from different online sources. line, from media to blogs, with the advantage that Google Reader worked with most of the current browsers without the need to install any software. "Users and developers interested in RSS alternatives can export their data, including their subscriptions, with Google Takeout over the next four months," the company explained in a statement.
"We know that Reader has very devoted followers who experience its disappearance with great sadness; we are also saddened," the company said on the official Google Reader blog. And they add as an explanation that "the use of Google Reader has declined , and as a Google company we are concentrating all our energy on fewer products to improve the user experience."
Meanwhile, users are looking for alternatives like Feedly.com, which shows categorized content and has desktop and mobile versions. Or NewsBlur, open source, with specific versions for smartphones and tablets.
