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Reader's Dead and Google doesn't want us to remember that.

by hafichuk on 7/2/13, 7:19 PM with 4 comments

• by mooism2 on 7/2/13, 7:38 PM

  I expect their robots.txt blocks it because (a) Reader was useless if you didn't have an account, and (b) Reader was useless without the server-side components.

  Why do people ascribe malice to everything?

• by millzlane on 7/2/13, 8:26 PM

  They do allow:/reader/play though, which probably redirects to /reader .