Perspectives on Google Reader

Hitwise is reporting that Google Reader is still lagging pretty far behind both Bloglines and Rojo in terms of market share, despite much love from tech writers throughout the blogosphere. So why isn't Google's product more popular among the RSS feed reader choices? I use raw numbers to any of the other RSS readers in terms of usage. The service has receive almost unanimous praise from some pretty influential bloggers, so what is keeping the usage statistics down? Michael Arrington at Google hasn't done very much to advertise the service. I would venture that there is a significant amount of users who visit Google's page every day who know absolutely nothing about Google Reader at all. This week, Google used its homepage to market its Checkout services to visitors. Hitwise immediately noted a spike in traffic to the Google Checkout site, directly attributed to the strategically placed advertisement. In his here and Murdok. Visit Murdok for the