Comments on: Is Google’s RSS Reader Quietly Dominating the RSS Market?

By: Tech Bee

Tech Bee — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:02:00 +0000

Is Tech Bee quietly dominating the referal blog market?…:). I ain’t Google Reader, but I do fine on your trackbacks.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:23:00 +0000

Google Reader is my Reader of choice too. I love the new trends – it means I keep uptodate more, as I try to beat my previous ‘scores’ of how much I read. It is so easy and simple and whenever I am signed into Gmail, Blogger etc (ie: all the time), I am signed in there as well.

I have noticed a lot of Google Reader trackbacks too…

By: John Walker

John Walker — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:03:00 +0000

Since they updated to the new version a couple of months back, it’s all I use now. It’s very nice. I do want search, though.

By: kMoney

kMoney — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:58:00 +0000

I’ve been using Google Reader for about 6 months now and have grown to love it. It may not have all of the features of a standalone reader but it’s very convenient being able to keep track of subscriptions and unread items anywhere, at work, home desktop and laptop, etc. Also the starred items are nice to mark something at work when scanning through and being able to check it at home or to just save it for reference. The also just added ‘Trends’ which shows some interesting info.

One lacking feature, which is surprising coming from Google, is search. I’m sure that will be added soon. I know they made some huge changes about the time I started using it, have you looked at it again recently?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:12:00 +0000

Can you post how you got numbers like Google reader is dominating the market in 6 months and that they have 3x as many hits/usage/etc.. than Bloglines? Where do these numbers come from? Is this some scientific study or just a gut feeling you have?

By: carpeicthus

carpeicthus — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:17:00 +0000

I’ve been using it ever since they started tracking trends. It’s actually the easiest system I’ve used for being able to quickly look at large amounts of data and ignore what I want, but it’s begun to run glacially slow on my old laptop.