Your reader will deliver only the latest content to you. If you are on slower internet connection, you don’t have to visit multiple blogs and load all of their information individually.If you have a feed reader, it can check those 10 blogs every hour (or whenever you want), let you know when any have been updated, and provide you with the new content.

If you have 10 friends who have blogs, then you will need to visit those blogs to view any updated content.The content of password-protected posts will not display in your blog’s feed. Your feeds are created automatically unless you mark your blog as private. The main content feed can be accessed by adding /feed/ to your blog’s URL.Īs an example, here is the feed of the official blog: The content comes to you!Įvery blog has multiple feeds. This is particularly useful to keep track of updated content from many blogs and sites without even visiting them. This is very useful, as it allows other people to monitor your blog, along with other websites they are interested in, and aggregate them together through applications known as feed readers, like the Reader or RSSOwl. (But, really, we found the chemistry with Labs just wasn't there anymore.A feed (often called RSS) is a stream of posts or comments that is updated when new content is published.

There's even a version of Reader for the Nintendo Wii. Reader now has offline access using Google Gears, a new search tool, it's available in 10 languages, and will show you trends about your reading and subscribing habits. So why has Reader graduated from Google Labs? There have been a bunch of feature updates in recent months. For further explanation about why feed readers are so great, watch RSS in Plain English:

You'll find similar links on most blogs, and many news sites too. To see how it works, try subscribing to this blog by clicking on the 'Site Feed' link in the on the right-hand side. You can read all the updates in one place - there's no need to visit 20 different sites to get all this stuff. Think of it as your inbox for the web: just subscribe to the news sites, blogs, or videos you want to follow. If you're not familiar with Reader, it's Google's feed aggregator. You may have noticed that Google Reader recently parted ways with Google Labs. Posted by Nick Baum, Associate Product Manager

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