Google Operating System has an excellent piece on a subject which has been baffling me for ages - getting your Gmail messages to show up in a RSS reader. I’ve never been able to get it to work but it actually turns out that it doesn’t work in Google Reader! In fact the only online reader that it works in is Netvibes! How’s that for weirdness?

Google doesn’t trust their own RSS reader to handle Gmail?

As some of the comments in GOS says, it’s something you would expect from a company such as Microsoft but Google? Come on!

OK, it’s a feature I would never use as I don’t see the point of reading your email in a RSS reader but even so, I’m struck by the irony of it. Google refuses to let their own Reader app handle their own email app and instead they allow an outside RSS website in instead.    I’d like Google to explain the logic of that one.

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