Google Reader goes international, loses beta tag

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Google Reader goes international, loses beta tag

by Brad Linder Sep 18th 2007

Google Reader has come out of beta. That's right, Google now has at least two services that don't have a beta tag, their search engine and Reader. Gmail, which predates Google Reader still wears a beta label even though it's been a while since we've seen any major new features.

But just a few weeks after Google added the much sought-after search function to its RSS Reader, the company has decided the product is all grown up and ready to go out into the world. And we mean that literally, Google has added support for new languages including French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. There's even a UK English version.

But we have to say, there does seem to be a bit of extra white space at the top left of the screen where the familiar "beta" once rested.

Tags: google-reader, international, multilingual, rss

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Sin Jin Lee said 8:11PM on 9-18-2007

Does beta even mean anything these days??

Peter said 9:18PM on 9-18-2007

Hopefully this doesn't mean Reader is "done" and we're not going to see new features for a while. It's good, bit it's still missing a few things that stop me from switching from FeedDemon.

No "watches" or keyword tagging and poor printing are the two biggest for me.

SAGExSDX said 10:27AM on 9-19-2007

wow. when i saw the headline in greader i looked up at the logo and sure enough that section of the screen looked empty without the beta tag... hope they do a little cleaning up of that corner. too much white space indeed

Hire a Programmer said 10:37AM on 9-19-2007

nice one

Rich said 10:38AM on 9-19-2007

What do you mean "even a UK English version" - it's refreshing that Google recognises the difference and doesn't do the same as Microsoft and Apple by assuming that we speak precisely the same dialect as in the USA.

SamanthaSue said 7:49AM on 9-20-2007

It may have gone global, but it no longer works in Opera browser....Now just how global is that?
Very frustrating.

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