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taligent on March 23, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Finale for Now on Google's Self-Inflicted Trust Pr...

You are missing the point. Google Reader was also an API.

And there has been this assumption with Google that they would keep their APIs available. Especially for something a innocuous as an RSS API. But that doesn't seem to be the case.

Shooti on March 23, 2013 | [–]

> You are missing the point. Google Reader was also an API.

A hacked up, reverse-engineered API. Since it was never official they haven't actually broken any promises.

obsession on March 24, 2013 | [–]

Google has killed APIs before. Examples include Google Translate and private weather API.

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