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The demise of Google Reader (http://readwrite.com/2013/03/14/why-we-mourn-google-reader-and-why-it-matters) was met with much wailing and gnashing of teeth among its loyal fans, many of whom voiced a common complaint: Why did the news reader they depended upon have to die?
(See also: How To Make News Readers Work For You (http://readwrite.com/2013/07/01/how-to-make-news-readers-work-for-you))
Turns out that you can blame Larry Page. As BuzzFeed's Matt Lynley reports, Page and his inner circle didn't consider Reader "an important strategic priority (http://www.buzzfeed.com/mattlynley/google-reader-died-because-no-one-would-run-it)." As a result, no one in Google wanted to run the unit, knowing that doing so wouldn't gain them any attention from Page and his inner circle.
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