Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'google reader'

Whenever a post is removed from a blog, my first instinct is to go to an RSS reader like Google Reader or Bloglines and find the same post there, to see if it is still available. A big mistake most...

Posted on June 4, 2008 10:04 AM

I am a heavy Google Reader user and while I was checking my feeds on my iPhone at the Verizon Wireless store (ironic) last night, I noticed that Google Reader began bugging out. Also, throughout the day, the "unread" count...

Posted on May 22, 2008 8:00 AM

Want to share something you found particularly useful on Google Reader with some more information? You now can, thanks to a new feature called "Share with Note" that looks just like this: On the bottom of any feed item, click...

Posted on May 6, 2008 9:46 AM

Update: It seems like Google Reader is showing embedded Flickr Videos, for me at least. I inserted a picture below showing the Flickr Video in this post, rendering in my Google Reader (on Apple Safari). A Google Groups thread has...

Posted on April 16, 2008 7:51 AM

A couple of active Google Reader users have reported at a Google Groups thread that someone or something is injecting spam into their daily reading. It is really hard to determine how this is being done at this point (i.e....

Posted on February 21, 2008 8:04 AM

I am a huge fan of Google Groups, specifically the forums where Google representatives offer assistance on their products. This ranges from Google Webmaster Help to Google AdSense Help and as far as Google Docs Help and Google Reader Help...

Posted on February 12, 2008 7:33 AM

Numerous reports at Google Groups from several users of Google Reader say that they are unable to manage their friends who maintain a googlemail.com account. To be specific, one member says the following: I'm having the exact same problem -...

Posted on February 11, 2008 10:13 AM

If you use the bookmarklet feature to subscribe to new blogs or sites via Google Reader, you may have noticed that it does not always allow you to subscribe to that content. Google Reader Guide (Graham) posted in a Google...

Posted on January 9, 2008 8:03 AM

On December 14th, Google Reader announced a feature that automatically shares your feed items with your friends. Google Reader Gets Social With Friends Shared Items from Danny Sullivan has an excellent write up. Honestly, I think we were both surprised...

Posted on December 26, 2007 7:31 AM

On Thursday of last week, a number of users subscribed to Google Reader and who browse with Internet Explorer 7 were encountering problems where Google Reader would load a blank page. The issue was brought to a Google Groups discussion....

Posted on July 23, 2007 9:47 AM

A DigitalPoint Forums member points to a vulnerability within Google Reader that enables blog owners to add code to their blog that will allow any visitor to automatically subscribe to the RSS feed. Patrick Altoft wrote about this discovery and...

Posted on July 19, 2007 9:27 AM

Yesterday, users reported that Google Reader was not refreshing feeds and TechCrunch picked up the story. A Google Groups thread has also been monitoring the downtime, eventually with Mihai Parparita, a Google Reader Engineer, informing the community that the problem...

Posted on June 26, 2007 9:20 AM

Yesterday evening, an outage affected users of Google Reader. For a short while, subscriptions for half of Google Reader users were unaccessible. According to the Google Reader Blog, Google was "able to identify, diagnose, and fix today's outage within an...

Posted on June 12, 2007 9:17 AM

digg_url='http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/013657.html'; Yesterday, at Search Engine Land I wrote the story on Google Gears just from the press release, so I didn't have time to play with it before hand. The Google blog mentioned it, and they told us about...

Posted on May 31, 2007 7:03 AM

Google Reader has made a few improvements to their email feature. Now when you see an article or story in Google Reader that you want to share with a non-RSS user friend, you can click the email button and it...

Posted on May 3, 2007 8:22 AM

Mihai Parparita a Google Reader Engineer posted a thread in Google Groups stating that they have released a new update for Google Reader. The most noticeable change with this update are the new buttons in Google Reader, it looks like...

Posted on March 15, 2007 8:09 AM

A DigitalPoint Forum thread reports that Google has made a slight change to the Google Personalized home page, by adding a little plus sign to the RSS feeds. Instead of just seeing the title, you can click on the plus...

Posted on January 23, 2007 7:43 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread discusses the update to Google Reader, Google's RSS Reader. I am not going to do the review, but I wanted to link to Matt Cutts's review of the product. He does a great job comparing the reader...

Posted on September 29, 2006 3:30 PM

A WebmasterWorld thread claims a Google AdWords representative sent him an email warning him not to use the add to Google Reader RSS button on his site. Why did Google tell this person to not have the button on his...

Posted on August 16, 2006 1:02 PM