Google’s RSS support questioned

 

Dwight Shih asks a good question:

For a company whose motto is don’t be evil, Google’s drop of RSS support is quite troubling. Atom is both an API and a format. I could understand a move to the Atom API. I could even understand a migration to the Atom format. But I just don’t understand the need to drop RSS support. Readers and aggregator developers are potential losers. But who are the potential winners?

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