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Saturday, November 03, 2007

Google blocking Google

For the last several days, I haven’t been getting updated RSS feeds from Google News. I have a dozen or so feeds set up from Google News search results, which often surfaces some interesting or important information. But for almost a week, zip. Nothing.

After trying several approaches to getting the feeds to show again, I contacted customer support for NewsGator, which owns FeedDemon, the aggregator I use. The response from NewsGator: Google’s servers have “unintentionally” blocked NewsGator. That is, NewsGator’s services are unable to connect to Google RSS feeds. NewsGator is “communicating with the folks at Google” to resolve the issue.

I won’t claim a conspiracy theory here and suggest that Google—host of the very popular Google RSS reader—is intentially sabotaging a competitor. But how long does it take to unblock one company if the blocking was accidental? The fact that I can’t read Google News feeds on FeedDemon is absurd. C’mon, Google. Get your act together.

Posted by Shel on 11/03 at 08:12 AM
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