This is the second blog-related product they've come out with recently that appears not to have been touched by human beings before it was introduced to the world (the other was the ridiculous blog search). I think they need to start using their own stuff before releasing it. And maybe look at the competition for ideas. When you're first into a market there's an excuse for being so wrong. But the first of this kind of software shipped six years ago. To give you a comparison, Visicalc shipped in 1979. By 1985 we had been through two generations of spreadsheets with Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel. Google's reader is a huge step backward from what was available in 1999. The arrogance is catching up with them.

Положительные отзывы тоже присутствуют, но им, на мой взгляд, не хватает обоснованности, как, например, этому:

In my opinion, Google Reader is one of the best products we've seen from Google. Period. There's a lot of naysayers out there right now, but I predict they'll change their tune real soon.

Лично мне так и не удалось запустить Google Reader в обычно используемом браузере Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7. При этом в последней бета-версии Firefox 1.5 все работает- очень странная совместимость выходит.

Если кто-то все же решится перейти целиком на использование этого ридера - то букмарклет для добавления новых фидов ему в помощь.