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I have to agree with you Scott, Google missed a HUGE opportunity with the legion of Google Reader users. I really miss Google Reader. I want it back, Google!

But integrating Google Reader and Google+ would have made an easy peasy way to share content and socially connect with similar Google+ users. If that happened back then, I'm sure Google+ today would have been a successful community.

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> ... Google missed a HUGE opportunity with the legion of Google Reader users. I really miss Google Reader. I want it back, Google!

So do I, for a number of reasons including that its nominal replacement (Feedly) sucks. But I can see this from Google's perspective -- they couldn't monetize the fact that they had such a large and loyal following. In other words, they had a top rating without a bottom line.

Can't agree with that, Google Reader was great but I'm very happy with what I'm getting from Feedly, I don't feel worse off

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