Nearly eight years ago, Google retired many Google reader services to disappoint many users. The reason presented because his death varies but most of them revolve around how the RSS format is open but outdated seems to be out of mode as a substitute for social media. Of course, RSS feeds are still alive and kicking and, almost ironically, Google plays with Chrome features that recognize that when you bring Google Reader rather again as a default feature in a web browser.
The principle behind the RSS is quite simple and precedes the “subscription” feature that is now common on many social platforms. RSS applications or feed readers or services, just like old Google Reader, will regularly check new articles posted by site owners by updating their RSS feeds with correct data and metadata. Depending on the application settings, users will be able to read condensed content versions or even the full version, sometimes stripped naked to text and images.
The emergence of social media that seems to end the workflow with more and more people who are brought to Twitter and Facebook for their news and updates. Of course, that never happened and RSS is still in broad use today, even if it doesn’t expand as before. Recognizing that fact, Google developers conducted experiments that change chrome into RSS readers too, at least on Android.
Those who use an unstable version of Canary Crome for Android might see the “Follow” button on the browser menu on a web page that offers RSS feeds so you don’t need to hunt the right URL anymore. Every time the page has new content, they will appear in the following section on the Chrome new tab page.
Of course, this feature will not occur with magic and requires that the site owner apply the right RSS support. Google does have a guide for them and will see if it is quite interesting to roll it into all Chrome users in the near future.