Seemed like Google wanted to be a platform for everything you might need to do on the web. (Which meant more vectors for data collection to fuel the revenue generator: ads.)

Now it is starting to replace Big G products with third-party integrations (Search cache, A/B testing).

Is it now Microsoft?

@curiouskyle Google is stupid, and I say that from the point of view as an open web evangelist, not an SEO. I have done some of that before, but the amount of work they, Google, makes you go through is ridiculous, and they just expect everyone to put up with it. That's why even if I do get back into multiple blogging, I'm never, ever going to worry about pagerank, because it's counterproductive. I mean they love to kill off entire open web standards like RSs, or try to anyway. Then they just expect everyone to play along. Everyone does, which is why I hate Google.

@ladyhope I only use Google to check stuff for clients (typically when they reference where they’re ranking or need Maps help) or if I just want to see what the search results page is looking like.

I also still miss Google Reader (despite liking the other RSS tools I’ve discovered just fine).

@curiouskyle Yeah google reader was the best! I really haven't found anything to replace it besides Miniflux, which I'm not using right now because I just can't do my own terminals unfortunately.

@curiouskyle Unfortunately RSS tools are not screen reader accessible, and Google reader was. Miniflux is, it's what works the best for me. Most of them aren't anyway, and the ones that are are like Thunderbird, or windows-based.