Google Reader is a Web-based aggregator, capable of reading Atom and RSS feeds online or offline. It was released by Google on October 7, 2005 through Google Labs. Reader was graduated from beta status on September 17, 2007.
Google made major revisions to Reader's user-interface on September 28, 2006. Product manager Nick Baum described the redesign as a movement toward making news aggregation something for the general public to enjoy. Kevin Fox, the designer of the revised Google Reader, noted that the original version was optimal for those who want to read a "river" of news. The new version took into account that most readers segment their reading by feed, group, tag, folder, or into "must read" and "maybe if I get to it" feeds.
Features of Google Reader as of 2010 include:
a front page that lets you see new items at a glance
import and export subscription lists as an OPML file
keyboard shortcuts for main functions
choice between list view or expanded view for item viewing (showing either just the story title or including a description, respectively)
automatic marking of items as read as they are scrolled past (expanded view only)
search in all feeds, across all updates from subscriptions
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