We all know how to stop a zombie, right? Get it in the head. Fine in the movies or “The Walking Dead,” but it’s not so simple for zombie products or technologies.
Case in point: Google Reader. The product was “killed” by Google in the middle of 2013, and it was no longer available to end users. So it was dead and buried, right?
Wrong. It was a zombie. The back end of Google Reader kept on plugging away, checking feeds, dutifully reporting how many subscribers it was polling on behalf of. Like the Energizer bunny, It kept on going and going and going … until sometime on November 13th, 2014, when some plucky soul at Google finally whacked the Google Reader back end firmly enough in the head to stop it for good.
Yes, for nearly a year and a half, the back end of Google Reader apparently didn’t know that it was dead.
After its nominal demise, last year, we made a decision to continue to report Google Reader subscriber numbers while we still saw them. So if your RSS stats changed dramatically on November the 14th, the first full day without Zombie Google Reader (ZGR), that’s why.
It’s weird and odd that ZGR was left running for so long; makes me wonder what happened to make someone finally turn it off. Maybe that famous pink marketing bunny took its batteries back.
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