View Your Trends from Google Reader

Google Reader is an innovative service provided by Google that allows you to save your favorite feeds and read news directly from the solution without the need of visiting the website and check for latest changes. It is available for free and can be accessed from the official website of the product, requiring only a Google account. Google Reader is very easy to use and allows you to read all the news with a single click. Because many users are already using the service, Google tried to update it with new features meant to attract more clients.

As you may know, Google provides a Google Trends service that allows you to view the most popular searches and other information that concern the search engine provided by the company. Google decided to add the same tool to the Reader service, so you can see the most important stats related to your article and reads directly from your Google Reader account. All you need to do is to log in with your username and password and click on the Trends feature provided as a link on the Home menu.

The Google employees posted a message on the official blog to announce the new feature and to present more information about it.

"The result is the Reader Trends page, accessed via a link from the "Home" page. For example, it lets me see the spike in read items two days ago (the result of my New Year's resolution of staying on top of my 322 subscriptions). There are also my subscriptions sorted by various criteria, so I can see which I'm having trouble keeping up with. Each subscription has a unsubscribe icon next to it, which I've used for those that I decided were not worth keeping around," Mihai Parparita, Google employee said.