Google announces new RSS reader

Earlier today Google announced their new service Google Reader as part of their Web 2.0 program, which is looking very nice. For more information, have a look at the documentation on Google’s site.

It is, as usual when Google is up to something, built using AJAX which makes the interface very cool. It seems like it is very light and content focused. I have yet to do some extensive testing but it looks great so far! Maybe it will replace my current web based RSS reader Bloglines.

Other sites mentioning this:

• Ars Technica
• Lifehacker
• Slashdot

Update: Ok, great, I exported my RSS feeds to an OPML file from Bloglines and tried to import it into Google Reader, but sorry to say it did not go very well. The only thing I currently get is:

Oops…an error occurred. Please try again in a few seconds.

Not very good I guess, but hopefully it will be fixed soon! I am really eager to do some real world testing.

Update: Well, it seems to be working again at the moment. This makes it quite clear that it is a beta and not yet ready for prime time. I am hoping that it will mature over the next couple of weeks though.