FeedBurner Makes the Jump to the Google Mothership

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 by Jordan McCollum

FeedBurner Makes the Jump to the Google Mothership

It’s been slowly coming for a very long time. Google announced that they’d acquired FeedBurner back in May 2007. Only eleven months later (*eye roll*), in April 2008, the two finally began their integration. And now it’s complete.

Last night, FeedBurner was the same website. Today, feedburner.com redirects (with masking) to google.com and www.feedburner.com gives the Google login:

Once you sign in, however, you find the old FeedBurner layout. If you’re a FeedBurner user, you’ve probably seen the promptings to migrate your feeds to Google. As the above screenshot assures you, there’s still time. In fact, the front-page–only change may just be a ploy to reluctant or lazy users to migrate faster.

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7 comments on “FeedBurner Makes the Jump to the Google Mothership”

Andy Beal Says:

April 23rd, 2009 at 11:16 am

Let’s hope they’ve ironed out all of the migration bugs, otherwise the complaints about reduced subscriber numbers are about to go through the roof!
Jaan Kanellis Says:

April 23rd, 2009 at 11:49 am

Looks like they just threw a copy of the Google home page code onto http://feedburner.com/. Maybe Google wants to cause some duplicate content issues with themselves.

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James Morell Says:

April 23rd, 2009 at 1:16 pm

Reduced subscriber numbers?! On one of my feeds (a client site) I’m seeing around 167,000 subscribers – up from around 2000 before migrating. I think I may have a few of your missing subscribers Andy!

My main issue with this migration is we can’t now easily share data unless a dummy Google account is set up and shared amongst colleagues. Which frankly is a pain in the arse.

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Jordan McCollum Says:

April 23rd, 2009 at 1:17 pm

@Andy—I was worried about that, but oddly enough my numbers went up over yesterday. They’ve held steady over the last few months (can’t remember when I switched). Now if they could only make Feedfetcher stop fighting with FeedBurner.

@Jaan—looks like you’re right. Knew I should’ve used a redirect checker! (Note: just checked with a redirect checker and feedburner.com appears to still be 301d to http://www.feedburner.com/somecrazystring. Looks like Google’s trying to cause all kinds of issues!)
Andy Beal Says:

April 23rd, 2009 at 1:52 pm

@James & @Jordan – some blog in Albania is scratching its head at why it’s RSS count went from 2 to 3,000+–I want my subscribers back!
Farhad Divecha Says:

April 24th, 2009 at 10:01 am

The switch over has been in the works for quite a few weeks actually. Last month (or the month before, I can’t recall) we had the option to move our account sign in to a Google Account, and 2 weeks ago we started seeing the Google branded login page.
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