Who killed Google Reader?

Google Reader was building the wrong future

The app that taught us to directly follow our favorite creators.

How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds

Learn how one of the biggest tech companies played a major role in the reason many people stopped using RSS feeds

Digg is going to kill Digg Reader; what should we do now?

After five years of operation Digg Reader, an RSS reader, is about to be killed. Here’s what greeted me over the weekend when I fired it up in a web browser: As far as I can tell there haven&…

Google Just Ruined One of Its Most Important Tools

Google Earth was a boon for researchers—and then came the deepfakes.

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

Company hired Google's book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize "all the books in the world."

Google Was a Lifeline for Publishers. Now Some Are Thinking of Cutting It Off.

Reddit, Politico and others are weighing how—or even if—they can work with the tech company as AI tools supplant traditional searches.

Google Was a Lifeline for Publishers. Now Some Are Thinking of Cutting It Off.

Reddit, Politico and others are weighing how—or even if—they can work with the tech company as AI tools supplant traditional searches.

The end of the Googleverse

The last 25 years of Google’s history can be boiled down to a battle against the Google bomb. Is the search engine finally losing to its hijackers?

RSS is undead | TechCrunch

RSS died. Whether you blame Feedburner, or Google Reader, or Digg Reader last month, or any number of other product failures over the years, the humble

Will Google’s AI hype man kill the BBC?

Matt Brittin spent two decades at Google, a tech company helping to destroy journalism. His appointment as leader of Britain’s biggest news organisation represents an existential threat, writes Carole Cadwalladr

Google is its own worst enemy

In its bid to push AI, it’s destroying its products and trying to kill the web too

Killed by Google

Killed by Google is the Google Graveyard. A full list of dead products killed by Google in the Google Cemetery.

Google keeps failing to understand tablets

Like almost every company that’s ever tried to build a tablet

The Man Who Killed Google Search

Wanna listen to this story instead? Check out this week's Better Offline podcast, "The Man That Destroyed Google Search," available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. UPDATE: Prabhakar has now been deposed as head of search, read here for more details. This is the

Google Bard is a glorious reinvention of black-hat SEO spam and…

Google's own researchers argued it was impossible to secure, then they quit.