Google is working on new features to implement in future versions of Chrome, and one of them will partially “revive” the historic Google Reader . The web browser will add a button to follow websites and access their latest publications, as if it were an old RSS reader.
According to the announcement, this feature will first be tested by a small group of users in the United States. In principle, the option will be available in the Canary version of Chrome for Android . If the tests go well, it would not be surprising if the button appears soon in stable versions of the software.
The operation of this utility in Google Chrome is extremely simple and potentially very effective. To add a source you just have to visit the website and display the menu from the upper right corner of the interface. At the end of the options appears the button “Follow” , from which the content is added to the news aggregator.
Google All the new publications of the followed sites will appear when opening a new tab, in a dedicated sector . In this way, Chrome will allow you to choose between reading news recommended automatically according to our browsing parameters or seeing the list of followed sources.
Google Chrome puts its eye back on the RSS
Jack Amick on Flickr With the new function to follow websites in Chrome, Google wants to take advantage of an old recipe but that has proven its worth . In a world that increasingly consumes more information through social networks, the Californian firm uses the historic RSS format as an alternative.
This does not mean that in Mountain View they see this option as a full return of Google Reader or some service like that. However, it is an interesting plan for those who prefer to group their favorite reading sources in a single place without depending on the social components of other services .
“Keeping a site's RSS up-to-date will ensure that Google Chrome can provide the latest content to users with this experiment. We will provide further guidance to web publishers as we learn and assess whether this feature will transition from a I experiment with a broader implementation in the browser “, indicated Google.
