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Comment by franze | Hacker News Reader

here is the google trends graph https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=FFFFOUND wonder what happened in july 2013?

the decline in 2015 might be the push by google for mobile friendly sites.

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Possibly coincidental, but July 1, 2013 was the date Google Reader was discontinued.

You could also ask what happend in Nov 2011 that stopped the exponential increase

That was the month they got rid of sharing and encouraged Reader users to share through Google+. It also inspired this tweet, which I remember fondly.

https://twitter.com/jkottke/status/131434505947979776

    Looking like @newsblur is the @pinboard of Google's deliciousing of Reader.
    1 Nov 2011, @jkottke

Pinterest probably killed it.

Unsplash.com seems to be gaining some momentum in comparison since Jan 2016 https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=FFFFOUND...

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