# Google Reader

Closed (down). Founded 2005-10-07. Closed 2013-07-01.
Site: [google.com/reader](https://google.com/reader)

Shut down 1 Jul 2013. The death that turned RSS into a protest identity.

## Why it lasted
- It was the best RSS reader and the social graph of sharing feeds.

## Near deaths
- It was killed at the peak of its cult, which is why the cult never ended.

## What would finish it
- Google's 2013 spring cleaning. Social was going to be Google+. It was not.

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