Google’s follow button for adding RSS feeds to your Chrome app is no longer an experimental feature. The follow button achieves some of the same effect as the long-gone Google Reader, by aggregating articles into one feed.
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Eight years after the untimely demise of Google Reader, Google is embracing RSS again. The company is testing a Follow button for Chrome that lets you keep up with your favorite sites on the web browser. In the coming weeks, users of the Chrome Canary channel for developers should start seeing the new feature on Android. Google s Adrienne Porter Felt tweeted that the follow feed is based on RSS and that the company is building it to address a user need.
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Alas, the announcement was met with pushback and sarcasm from those still pining over Google Reader. In a curt reply, one Twitter user said: so, it’s google reader, but shittier. Another blamed Google for trying to kill rss hype 15 years back, but when it couldn t, it reused it! While news aggregator Feedly shared a tongue-in-cheek response, tweeting: great news, we’re excited! Others, however, welcomed the news by sharing constructive feedback and requesting an iOS version.