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Google shutting down Reader's page change tracker for sites with no RSS feed
You may not have known about it, but Google Reader has a pretty slick feature that allows you to subscribe to any page -- even one without an RSS feed. When the page is updated, it'll appear in your unread Reader items. At least, it will until September 30th.
Google has announced that they're shutting down the tracker service, and it's not a complete shocker. My results with it were never that good -- pages I had subscribed to often changed multiple times, and I never received an alert.
If you're looking for an alternative, check out Jay's post -- he rounded up 10 ways to keep tabs on a Web page without using RSS a while back.
Google has announced that they're shutting down the tracker service, and it's not a complete shocker. My results with it were never that good -- pages I had subscribed to often changed multiple times, and I never received an alert.
If you're looking for an alternative, check out Jay's post -- he rounded up 10 ways to keep tabs on a Web page without using RSS a while back.
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Subscribe to commentsChris WilliamsSep 23rd 2010 3:25PM
If you're looking for a new way to do this, give Activorous (http://activoro.us) a try -- Activorous supports parsing normal websites into RSS-like feeds, and will also automatically import all your RSS feeds from Google Reader.
David S. (@seemsArtless)Sep 23rd 2010 10:01PM
Ha, I rarely use this feature, but just added the official 'New products' Google page to my reader this way, since it doesn't have an RSS feed for some odd reason.