14 DAY TRIAL // Google Reader, the search giant's feed reading solution, was updated again with two new special versions especially addressed to Japanese and French users. Basically, the new products are actually translations of the main Google Reader in native languages for French and Japanese consumers. "Today is a big day for us. We learned to speak some new languages. And frankly, you don't translate well. But we both speak English, and we know that "u" and "I" are far apart in the alphabet. We're farther in real life," Nick Baum from Google wrote on the official blog of the company.
Google Reader is quite a very useful solution if you intend to read the RSS feeds without installing a specialized RSS client on your computer. The product was first released on October 7, 2005 as a part of Google Labs, a testing platform that is meant to try all the new solutions before they are officially released on the web.
Since then, the Mountain View company has updated it periodically with new features and abilities. For example, in September 2006 Google changed the interface of the product in order to provide better RSS reading and improved functionality for the solution. Recently, Google implemented a search box into Reader, being one of the most required features by the users of the tool.
Personally, I use Google Reader every day and I must admit that even if it is a part of Google Labs, the feed reader works absolutely amazing. There are errors in the entire product but they are not appearing too often as the Mountain View company seems to be very focused on the evolution of the service.
Anyway, I'm quite curios if the super giant Google plans to upgrade Reader to the final stage product because it's been a while since it was released and it remained a beta product.