Google Reader
“The beloved RSS reader killed when Google decided social was the future. Triggered a decade of mourning by power users.”
Lived 8 years · By Google
8y
2005 → 2013
July 1, 2013
Productivity
Domain status now
Redirects
The domain still resolves but bounces to a different page (often the parent company).
google.com → google.com
Evidence & sources
Official shutdown source
Original domain
Archive snapshot
API status
Public Reader API shut down on the same day as the consumer service.
Data export
Google Takeout export window closed 15 July 2013.
What replaced it
Feedly
feedly.com
The de-facto successor that absorbed most Reader refugees.
Timeline
March 13, 2013
Google announces shutdown via blog postsource
July 1, 2013
Service goes dark; subscriptions exportable until July 15
July 15, 2013
Final data-export window closes
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