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Google now recommends feeds in Google Reader

Yesterday, Google rolled out a couple of new changes to Google Reader, their very popular feed reader. The first one is a recommendation list that spits out feeds you might be interested in based on what you are currently subscribed to, and also your web history.
Written by Garett Rogers, Inactive

Yesterday, Google rolled out a couple of new changes to Google Reader, their very popular feed reader. The first one is a recommendation list that spits out feeds you might be interested in based on what you are currently subscribed to, and also your web history. This new discovery page helps people find feeds they might otherwise never come across -- either brand new blogs that haven't generated a lot of buzz, or established blogs that have great content, but are not updated very often.

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Another feature, that is less interesting but still very useful, is drag and drop. This feature lets users reorder feeds within, or between, folders -- previously you would have needed to select a feed, then use the dropdown to move it somewhere else.

Will people use these new features? The drag and drop functionality has helped me arrange my feeds without any hassle, and I've already added a few of the recommended items from their discovery page.

Google Reader is one of Google's products that is often doing interesting things -- for example, a while back they created a Wii interface, and more recently, an iPhone version. They were also the first service to fully support Google Gears. If you were working on the Google Reader team, what features would build into it?

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