Google Readers are engaged!

I will proudly proclaim my use of Google Reader. It may have the occasional duplicate post – but I love the interface. The recent addition of built in e-mailing functionality (pulling from your Gmail contact lists) has been a huge plus for me, too.

Thanks for posting your observation, Robert. I’ve been wondering how Google Reader is fairing amongst competitors!

I will proudly proclaim my use of Google Reader. It may have the occasional duplicate post – but I love the interface. The recent addition of built in e-mailing functionality (pulling from your Gmail contact lists) has been a huge plus for me, too.

Thanks for posting your observation, Robert. I’ve been wondering how Google Reader is fairing amongst competitors!

I get about 40% of my traffic from Google Reader and even more from google search. Google is definitely in control here. I too use Google Reader and love it.

I’m sure if all RSS readers reported a referer when accessing your site, that they would also be at the top. TechMeme and Google Reader are two different animals…

I’m 100% a Google Reader user and think that alot of it has to do with the crowd that uses Google. Think about the people that you know who basically run their lives off Google, like myself. Gmail, Gtalk, Analytics, Reader, etc. We’re much more interactive as a whole, I think.

Google Reader kicks butt because no matter what internet-connected device I use, it’s there for me.

Yep, we are all drinking our own Google kool-aid now. And boy do I LIKE it!

I don’t want to sound like a Google ad here but:

I’ve tried a number of readers, and Google’s is, by far the best. With its shortcut keys and “trends” it makes reading the news and blogs I subscribe to as easy as checking email.

And, I suppose I fit very neatly into the demographic, because here I am leaving a comment.

What I like about Google Reader is that it combines the “river of news” approach Dave likes so much, with drilldown — you can choose to drill into a specific feed, or category of feeds, easily.

Now if only they added the ability to search feeds :-S

I initially tried to use IE as my feed reader, and I did not like the fact that all a feeds content was treated as a single page. It was hard to tell where one post ended and another began.

After hearing Robert mention he used Google Reader, I gave it a shot. The video of watching Robert work was also helpful. When you are just starting out – it is worthwhile to see the workflow of productive people.

yep, google knows they are sitting on a gold mine and the acquisition of feedburner makes that pretty clear. all those engaged users in google reader and other readers can click away on the feedburner ads. good stuff.

how did I get here? ah! Google Reader…

I use to use some desktop rss reader until I watched the Tim Ferriss interview of Robert. I figured I’d give Google Reader a go and haven’t looked back since then.

I’ve tried to use Google Reader, I’ve tried to use IE7 to read feeds, I’ve tried Akregator from kDE to read my feeds, but still I keep going back to bloglines to read my “feeds” every day. Why? Portablity… I can’t use Google Reader in Konqueror correctly, heck I can’t even view GMail in Konqi.
I guess because I use something other then Google Reader I’m not engaged. Serious echo chamber going on here Robert.

@Prasenjeet – I agree there definitely needs to be some kind of searching mechanism for feeds. That to me is a high priority feature that is missing.

@Nathen Grass – the interview with Tim Ferris, that is the one I was talking about – it is worth watching.

@Jonathan – Just because Google Readers are engaged, doesn’t mean other people aren’t. Why does this have to be either / or and not inclusive?

google is pulling out all the stops it seems

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Google Reader is definitely handy. Helps me keep track of my feeds easily. I also agree with Prasenjeet and Thomas, feeds search is needed.

This blog post makes no sense, logically.

How does the fact that the largest group of referers to Scoble’s blog are from Google Reader prove that Google Readers are engaged (assuming that visiting Scoble’s blog means that the visitor is “engaged”).

Assuming that visiting Scoble’s blog is a measure of “engagement”, what would prove that Google Readers are engaged would be a high percentage of Google Readers visiting Scoble’s blog, not a high percentage of Scoble’s visitors being Google Readers.

From google reader. I’ve to come all the way here to enter comment. I wish I can see and enter comments from google reader itself.

do something = Click a link. Leave a comment. Buy. Etc

ha

I have just finished travelling for two days from Phoenix to Penang, through Taipei and Bangkok and LA. At every airport I synchronized my feeds, and on every plane ride I read through them offline. What a kickass experience!

It could be that Scoble’s pimping of Google Reader for months prompted his readers to move to Google Reader. So naturally lots of his referers are from Google Reader, but those may be readers that he already had. But it doesn’t necessarily mean “Google Readers are engaged”, since it could be the case that 99% of Google Reader users don’t visit this blog. :p

Don’t use Chinese toothpaste.

Readers as a whole, are a worthless lot, lacking basic informational and archive functions. Google Reader, rates no higher, nor any less. Whatever, shop talk circled. It’s not the tools, it’s what you make of them.

I’m afraid your argument is flawed… desktop feed readers don’t generally show up on your referrer logs because they open the browser separately to view the post. Is there a difference between the total referrer count and the total visits for yesterday? That’s the desktop feed reader referrer count. And it doesn’t include people like me who read everything but rarely click.

@24 “I’m afraid your argument is flawed…”

You expected something more from Scoble? When aren’t his arguments flawed?

But he does seem to be pimping Google at an alarming rate of late. Adobe is going to pull sponsorship if he’s not careful.

pimping Google at an alarming rate of late

Yeah, so much so that I thought another dreadful Channel 9 Google style. But seeing that he’s college degreeless, that won’t happen. Google hasn’t broken that rule for major others, I don’t see them breaking it now. Arrogance and the cult will kill Google, as it’s really a one-trick pony, and it’s search is so noised of late, half worthless.