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Chrome’s RSS-powered “Follow” button is like a rebooted Google Reader – Ars Technica
For now, it’s an Android “experiment” that might get “a broader rollout in Chrome.”
Left: Chrome’s new “Follow” button. Right: The RSS feed, which looks just like Google discover.
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Despite killing Google Reader in 2013, Google keeps flirting with the idea of helping users discover news. The algorithm-powered “Google Discover” and Google News feeds send heaps of traffic to websites based on users’ search histories, but what if people could just tell Google what websites they like? The company’s new Chromium blog post details how Google is “experimenting”…
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