- Company’s leadership began to wonder whether Reader was ever going to hit Google scale. Almost nothing ever hits Google scale, which is why Google kills almost everything.
- Marissa Mayer didn’t like it.
- Google+ sucked away all the engineers and resources.
https://www.theverge.com/23778253/google-reader-death-2013-r...
Or that you weren’t typing the name of the blog into Google to find it each time, and potentially clicking a sponsored link?
The whole idea of reader hurt Google’s business model.
Google could have put ads in Reader if they wanted to.
Its safe to say with her track record as a visionary, Google Reader on its own could have been spun off, floated and the company would have been so wildly sucessful that we would call them FANGR stocks.