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November 2, 2011 08:31 pm GMT

Ex-Google Reader Product Manager Posts Scathing Review Of Reader Redesign

screen_500 (1)Former Google Reader Product Manager Brian Shih has posted a scathing, but fairly accurate, review of the update to Google Reader. The update, which removed Reader's own social sharing features in favor of Google+, was unpopular among Google Reader's most active users because it destroyed their niche community built up over the years. But in Shih's opinion, that's only one of its problems.Just as bad is the new visual style, he says, referring to the stark, black-and-white user interface Google has been rolling out to all its products in recent weeks. Says Shih: "it's as if whoever made the update did so without ever actually using the product to, you know, read something,"

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