I've seen so many "Fuck you Google" said today I'm beginning to think Google has officially transitioned into being the new Microsoft.

Statistics as always ruin everything.

So usage is declining. But who continues to use Google Reader? Everyone who leads the social web, as evident by this story exploding everywhere. Google retiring Reader got more press than any Google innovation got in years.

Maybe Google should use the statistics of attention and rage rather than usage for deciding this one.

One of their reasons to retire GR is to focus their efforts. No effort has gone into GR for the last few years. Why not just keep it? The cost is nil.

The Arrow weapon system that Israel developed and deployed takes care of larger faster missiles. It's very similar to the Iron Dome, only bigger.

Use turd-eating worms to compost waste right at the source.

So why stop at the toilet? Push those worms up our butts and be done with it.

Wow. That sounds almost too good to be true, but I'll take your word for it, AC.

Apple's PR is doing a great job. Way to spin something into a provocative flamebait. Google didn't say what the title says it did, but timothy just couldn't resist.

Haha. I'm stealing that.

The last two stories timothy posted were assertions of facts based on meaningless statistics (Objective-C Overtakes C++ based on TIOBE Index) and now this. Is it naive incompetence or deliberate provocation of a circlejerk? I'm not sure which is worse.

Why this managed to reach the frontpage is beyond me.

You forgot the timothy factor.

Oh, please. It wasn't an evil secret plan. They were going to announce it on Monday. They were being polite to give their employees a heads-up before the rest of the world. There is no conspiracy or hypocrisy here.

On Monday Mitchell Baker will be posting on the future of Thunderbird. We'd like you to be aware of it before it goes public. However, this is *confidential* until the post is pushed live Monday afternoon PDT. Please don't tweet, blog or discuss on public mailing lists before then.

This is not an urgent scoop that can't wait for the official announcement in two days. The submitter was a dick for leaking it, and timothy was unprofessional for approving it.

They removed the old sharing functions from Reader and replaced them with Google+. It wasn't really an update. Some even consider it as stunting Reader because they had their social network in Reader and then they lost it. As far as I know, all the employees who worked on Reader were removed from working on it years ago, and there are no plans for doing any work on it in the future.

Now I'm fearing for Google Reader, which I use all the time. Google hasn't updated it for years, so it's just a matter of time before it is "spring cleaned".

You can always go back to college later

Ah. This statement can only come out of the young and naive...