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# Google's alibi for Reader's murder
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2013/06/rip-reader-google-plus/
- Published: 2013-06-17T16:18:18.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T15:58:37.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: Google, google reader

Talking of the [demise of Google Reader](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2013/06/my%5Fgoogle%5Freader%5Freplacement%5Ffeedly.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com), a snapshot from Google’s “Bring Your Parents to Work Day”:

> Unsurprisingly, someone asked Larry Page a question about Google Reader and got the scripted “too few users, only about a million” non-answer, to which Sergey Brin couldn’t help quip that a million is about the number of remote viewers of the Google I/O developer conference Page had just bragged about. Perhaps the decision to axe Reader wasn’t entirely unanimous.

Jean-Louis Gassée does a great job of [putting Google’s Reader-killing decision in context](http://www.mondaynote.com/2013/06/17/goodbye-google-reader/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com).