The demise of Google Reader 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?
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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.” 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.
