Google Reader and the Dupes
January 31st, 2008 by Michael Gray in GoogleIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Read my top posts or learn more about Michael Gray. Want more frequent updates follow me on Twitter. Thanks for visiting!
I’m sure this has to do with the way things are published, like the times are different, but it’s still annoying to have to mark things read I’ve read already, only to see them appear later on
Sphere It
January 31st, 2008 at 1:53 am
I would complain to Yahoo News; at first glance, it sounds like they’re not generating the feed correctly. Mihai from the Google Reader team stopped by on the last dupe report. He debugged it and found out that it was an issue with the site generating the feed: http://www.wolf-howl.com/google/google-reader-still-doing-the-dupe-thing/#comment-61365
So I’d assume it’s the same thing this time. Given that the dupes you show are all from one site (Yahoo News), I’d ask them them what’s up.
January 31st, 2008 at 5:44 am
This isn’t unique to Google Reader. I also user Thunderbird for newsfeeds and often see whole tranches of items re-appear. I suspect it’s down to a site pinging the system when changes have been made to themes or something similar…
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January 31st, 2008 at 10:33 am
Agreed Mihai rocks!
As pointed out in the other thread, it’s a problem in lots of readers, and I’ve had dupeproblems in the past http://www.wolf-howl.com/tools/diogenes-of-rss/ so it’s not just google and probably is the publisher. However Google reader does the best job filtering so far and I’m hoping they can solve the problem first.
February 1st, 2008 at 6:38 am
Yeah very much agree here, got thesame problem. I just wanna read and dont wanna click the dupes first
February 2nd, 2008 at 9:48 am
Dupes aren’t that uncommon.
Amazon has been annoying me by reminding me to ‘Earn 6% on Gift Cards’ everyday since December 15
February 12th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
thanks