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If only there was a system to create "feeds" of website entries (such as news sites), aggregate them, and then read them at our discretion. Then we could each create our own personal Google homepage.

Google could brand such an offering as "Google reader" and "Google personalized homepage"...

(For those who don't remember: these both used to be a thing!)

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See but that gives you, the consumer, toouch control over what you see.

They don't want it to be your choice.

Yea if they gave you the choice not screw yourself over, then you wouldn't be able to get screwed over by Google </sarcasm>

Google Reader was made open source, to be fair, and has plenty of replacements too.

I think that's sort of what RSS was going for, but it doesn't seem to have really taken off. Maybe we need an RSS 2.0.

RSS did take off... Google released their free reader, which grabbed (probably) 80% market share with 1-2 engineers maintaining it. Then it was killed (to the VERY loud protestations of the internet) for no apparent reason.

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