Google has a new daily shift announced in which Google Reader is the most prominent victim will be. The rss-reader started in 2005 and it still has a large crowd of users. Also Cloud Connect Snapseed stop.
In a blog post has Urs Hölzle, head to Googles Technical Infrastructure branch, the pension announced for more than eight services, as part of a new spring cleaning. Google holds every year some of these schoonmaakrondes to be little used or redundant services to be removed. Since 2011, there have been seventy services stopped.
The most eye-catching project, this time on the list is Google Reader. According to the company’s use declined in recent years and will, therefore, as of 1 July 2013 the power plug from the Reader to be drawn. Users can have their rss subscriptions, and other data in the coming months, export via Google Takeout.
The stop does not come entirely as a surprise. Google had been a little more of an eye for the rss reader, put developers on other projects such as Google+ and left it in February still to come that the Reader plenty of failures and bugs had to endure. Nevertheless, there are many users who now express their displeasure about the cessation be proved, and there are services from third parties, such as Feedly, which depend on the Reader api. FeedDemon, also depending on the Reader api, throws the towel in the ring.
Other services that Google deletes are Building Maker create 3d buildings for Earth and Maps, Google Voice App for Blackberry, and Cloud Connect. This latter is redundant, because Google Drive provides the same functionality. Also disappears the photo editing software Snapseed Desktop for OS X and Windows. The Snapseed apps for iOS and Android continue to be available.