04-16-2007
The Eerie Thing about Google Reader
I’ve been noticing this for a while now, and since it just happened again, I thought I’d post about it here.
It is a very eerie thing, and it happens to me ALL the time.
I use Google Reader to keep track of all the feeds I subscribe to. Between all my for-profit blogging, my personal interest blogs, and my new content blogs, I have roughly 900 plus feeds, categorized in about 25 folders.
In other words, I keep track of a lot of feeds. I have a collection of feeds for every niche in which I have a blog.
I also keep track of the feeds for my own blogs, mainly so that I can keep an eye on them, make sure they’re working right, stuff like that.
So here’s what I’ve been noticing about Google Reader. When you first sign-in, you get a page that features three of the feeds in your collection of feeds, with a list of the three most recent posts in each of those feeds.
Here’s the eerie thing. My own blogs consistently show up on this page.
For a while there, I thought it was because this initial page shows the most recently updated blogs, and I coincidentally always went to my reader right after having freshly blogged something. But there have just been too many times when I’ve blogged something in the morning, only to see it show up when I log into Google Reader later that night.
I know that lots of other blogs have been updated in the time in between my post and the time that I’ve logged on.
It’s just kind of eerie. And it happens to me regularly.









April 17th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
… ah, is this where I say “Big Brother is watching!”
Seems a bit of a coincidence that Google is doing that to your feeds - I wonder if there is a tracking code or something floating around in their program that would be able to correspond your writings to your RSS.
Man, that just freaks me out.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
It happened again last night - about three hours after I posted here. I had to log-off Google Reader because it had “stuck” on me. When I signed back on, there was the Working Blogger feed, right at the top of the three feeds on the main dashboard page.
Very strange.
Now I’ve got to go check out my stylesheet. The font in this comment box is very very small!
April 17th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
I thought it was just my eyesight
I wonder if they’re putting a cookie on your computer to know and track what you’re doing. I’m not sure, haven’t used the Google RSS reader. I wonder if anyone else has noticed this as well?
May 2nd, 2007 at 12:06 am
Ok last time I looked it wasn’t tiny but tonight it is! Ohhh, I figured out why - its teeny tiny in Firefox but not in IE. Now to fix it