Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'google reader'

For years, email spammers have been looking for ways to encourage people to click on their links. And for years, Google has been a target. Why? Well, when someone sees a link that has google.com in it, people trust it....

Posted on November 19, 2009 8:41 AM

I am a huge Google Reader, in fact, I might be one of the most active Google Reader users on the planet. So when they add features, I get a bit giddy. Yesterday, they added two features; an explore section...

Posted on October 23, 2009 8:32 AM

Just about a year ago, most Google help forums moved from the old Google Groups platform to a new platform. But not all have moved. The Google Reader group finally moved to the new platform a day or two ago....

Posted on September 25, 2009 8:51 AM

Google Latitude is an application that allows you to share your current or most recent shared location with your friends. It also allows you to share your location on your blog by using the Google Latitude Badge. A Google Reader...

Posted on September 22, 2009 8:44 AM

A Google Reader Help thread has Google Reader users who are very happy with a new feature added yesterday. The feature allows the feeds you share with your friends to be commented on. You can see a detailed walk through...

Posted on March 12, 2009 8:15 AM

I live in Google Reader and I am sure many of you do also, based on my FeedBurner statistics at least. That being said, Google continues to make Google Reader more useful and they have asked in a recent Google...

Posted on February 25, 2009 8:34 AM

We have confirmed reports that Google Reader's recommendation list feature stopped updating some time over the past day or so. The recommendation list is suppose to show you other blogs or feeds that you might be interested in, based on...

Posted on January 30, 2009 2:01 AM

If you're hosting your blog on wordpress.com and are embedding video in your blog post, don't expect for it to show up in Google Reader. That's what Google employees confirm in a Google Groups thread. According to Mihai, a Google...

Posted on December 18, 2008 9:27 AM

I finally switched over to Google Reader from Bloglines after it failed me for 2 days in October. I have a few gripes of my own and wonder if Google will ever address them. For example, I don't understand why...

Posted on December 12, 2008 9:55 AM

People using Google Reader who rely heavily on keyword shortcuts aren't happy. A Google Groups thread has a few forum members baffled. The documented behavior follows: I noticed that the "n" and "p" keys, used to scan down and up...

Posted on September 25, 2008 10:48 AM

Google has announced a new Google Reader feature that lets you share your blog posts with friends -- separate from your Gtalk contacts. Here's an example screenshot of what it looks like: Google is really excited about this, and so...

Posted on August 14, 2008 9:53 AM

A Google Reader user reports in Google Groups that folder management was previously an issue and that he was unable to change folders for any feed. Yesterday, Google acknowledged the problem, and about a half hour after that, Google said...

Posted on August 5, 2008 10:32 AM

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