Google Reader, one of the best-known feeds through which users can pull together their favorite Web content in one place, will be shutting down, the company announced. In an age of Facebook posts and retweets, Google Senior Vice President Urs Holzle said in a post on the official Google blog that Reader was losing popularity. "While the product has a loyal following, over the years usage has declined," Holzle wrote. Reader will be shut down on July 1. Users wanting to port their content to another RSS (rich site summary) feed can use Google Takeout to move it over the next four months.
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Google announces plans to shut down Google Reader
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Company says service, created in 2005, has been losing users
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Tens of thousands have signed petitions asking Google to keep Reader
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