Google Reader is dead. Long live Google Reader.
Google Reader dies this weekend, but it’s just the latest in a long list of Google products that have met their ignominious end on Google CEO Larry Page’s chopping block.
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“To celebrate the end of Google Reader on July 1, we’ve created this Google Graveyard of failed/discontinued products to commemorate the event,” WordStream founder Larry Kim said to me via e-mail.
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