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No, seriously, they added magic.
As you’ve probably noticed today, Google Reader has added a few new features. The first is the Explore section, just below the People you follow section. Here, Google shows off two sources of new feeds: Popular Items and Recommended Sources. As you might guess, the Recommended Sources feature analyzes your feeds (via Reader Trends) and Web History to find feeds you might like. (This is the old Recommendations feature.) Popular Items highlights “top-rising images, videos and pages from anywhere (not just your subscriptions).” It identifies these items algorithmically (how else?) and sorts them in the order they think you’ll like them.
The magic isn’t just in the mind reading, however. It’s also in the feed settings: now we can order items by newest, oldest or . . . magic.
The Magic setting orders items by our Reader activities and preferences Reader has observed. The more we like or share items in our feeds, the better the magic gets.
Like al of Google’s personalization features, these are based on our usage history. But how long until privacy advocates speak out against these developments? What do you think?
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Arrow SEO Says:
October 25th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
Google Reader is a great way to keep up with updated content. Thanks.
Sency Says:
October 25th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Google reader continues to improve, its solid although not talked about often
Symptoms Of Panic Attacks Says:
October 26th, 2009 at 5:07 am
I still haven’t quite figured out Google Reader. I was just introduced to it about a week ago; thanks your post may help me figure it out better.
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iPhone 3GS Fan Says:
October 26th, 2009 at 11:05 am
I haven’t looked into Google Reader for a while now so will have to pick this one up again and start using it as my main feed reader. Will definitely have to add the MP feed as I have been away from here for a while and only just making it a regular read again.