Google Reader launched in 2005, when Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds were a new way to keep tabs on favourite websites and blogs.

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They come either through an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed or directly into your email box no commercials, no stupid pet tricks or celebrity sightings.

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You will see hundreds of these icons offering RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, which is a way to get information sent to you, such as articles, classified ads (say from Craigslist.com), hotel schedules or even audio files (or podcasts).

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By the time he was 14, he had co-written the specification for RSS -- originally Rich Site Summary, now Really Simple Syndication -- a Web-publishing technology for delivering syndicated content from frequently updated sites, such as blogs or news websites.

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Other terms you may have seen or other acronyms you may have seen are RSS, and you'll see these little orange boxes maybe that says XML or RSS on your favorite websites, that stands for really simple syndication, which is what this reader.google.com site does.

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