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Recently, I blogged about the major problem that’s cropped up over the last few months/years with rogue sites scraping entire feeds of other blogs and publishing them in full on their evil sites. To combat this problem, in the last few days, a lot of Bloggers have decided to publish their posts in a truncated format. It’s very disheartening to pour your heart and soul into a blog post and have it completely ripped off within minutes of it being published.
This evening, I was researching the advantages vs disadvantages of a truncated feed and I found something that may make everyone happy…both Bloggers and Readers. It turns out, if you use Chrome as your main browser (raising my hand) there’s an extension you can download called Google Reader Inline. Once you add it to your Chrome browser, whenever you’re reading a feed in Google Reader, the extension will automatically load the content and display it as a full-text feed. It will let you view the original post in a page that’s superimposed over the current window/view.
I decided to give it a try. It took about 2 seconds (literally) to add the extension to my Chrome browser and the results were just as described. I brought up a blog (Remodelaholic) that was in my Google Reader and I clicked on the magnifying glass to the left of the title of the post. (Note arrow)
The post immediately displayed in full atop the Google Reader and the blog gets credit for your visit. So I never had to leave the reader in order to read the post. Awesome! This may be the solution to keeping everyone happy! I love Google Chrome, it’s my fave browser and they just keep making it better and better.
You can read more about Google Reader Inline HERE and HERE. You can download Google Reader Inline here: Google Reader Inline.
Happy solution for all, I think!
Susan, Google also has a “next” button that is very easily installed to your bookmark bar. You can use it from any website, click the button and it will take you to the newest published post in the blogs that you follow (thru Reader). A big advantage to using it is that you are actually visiting the blog, makes it easy to comment, pin, or enter giveaways, etc. Look for help in Google Reader and search for Next.
thanks!
I use chrome too and appreciate the tips. Do you watermark all of your photos?
That is awesome! Thanks for the tip!
That looked really appealing until I saw the permissions. I don’t understand why it should be able to access my data on any Google sites. Perhaps someone more tech savvy could explain it?
Sorry, I mean more tech savvy than ME! LOL
Shari/Fellow Readers
I’m more technically challenged than most! OK, I did install Google but seem to be going in circles for the next part – installing Reader. If anyone can speak to me in “English” lol I’d very much appreciate it.
Denise, I set mine up so many years ago, I don’t remember the steps now. I just googled how to set up google reader and found a lot of sites, thought. Google and you’ll find sites and even a video about it. I love the new extension features for Chrome…amazing all you can do with them.
Thanks Susan… I did it and it worked. I don’t care if google tracks me. I’ve got nothing to hide.
I don’t have time to do the “next” in my reader, because I don’t always read every item in my reader. I pick and choose.
I hope to never have to truncate my feeds. I’ve got a huge tag line at the end of each post, I don’t think I’ve been copied. I have google alerts set up, and keep a close eye on stuff.
thanks again!
gail
I don’t care if they track me, I have everything on Google. But I don’t think this particular extension is from Google, is it? But it says it can see *all* of my data in Google, which includes photos, contacts, email, docs & much, much more. Or maybe I don’t understand it properly??
Yes, the Google Reader Inline is part of Google. I guess that’s some disclaimer they have to give. Just like whenever you Google anything, Google keep statistics on what topics are googled etc…
Yep, 2 seconds and now I’m so, so happy! Thank you Susan!
I have been reading about this problem you have had and now it has come up on another blog also. I get all my blogs via e-mail and always click to go to the blog. I hope this “counts”. I feel like it should, if not please let me know and I will switch if I have to. I don’t care for the reader thing, but I know serious time goes into photos, posts, etc. and if I need to switch I will.
Thanks! Appreciate that so much!
I have google chrome and I subscribe by email…is different than having a reader (I don’t even know what a reader is…strange as that sounds)??
I love using google reader. I also like google chrome much better than IE, but when I use chrome to view google reader, I cannot see the list of blog posts. When I look at the feeds for any site I subscribe to and it shows a list of posts for that site, the list of post titles will be visible momentarily, but then flash to being unreadable because the print is not visible. I can still see the dividing lines between post titles, but not the titles, although if I click between lines, it will take me to a post. This does not happen with IE. Any ideas what could cause this and how I could eliminate the problem, and wonder if others have this problem.
Kay, I’m not sure. That’s sounds really strange. You may try googling that to see if someone else has had the problem and figured out a way to fix it. Whenever I have something weird like that going on, sometimes googling will help me find the answer. Hope you can figure it out…I’m sure it’s frustrating.
Susan, thank you for all the work you are doing on this. I will certainly always follow you. You were the first blog I read and I spent hours reading all your prior posts before I began reading blogs. Then I started a blog of my own. I am not sure I understand all this about google reader inline on chrome. I have a Mac and do have chrome but the google reader I have is on Safari.
Thanks, Bonnie! Appreciate that so much! Google Reader Inline is an “extension you can add to Chrome. I just learned about the various extension they have. They had some neat functions to your browser…and GRI just allows you to read a blog in the reader, Google Reader. I was amazed how it worked. To do it that way, you would need to use add the blogs you read via feed to Google Reader and then just add GRI extension to your Chrome Browser…which take a second to do. It worked great when I tried it. I just wanted folks to know about it in case that was convenient for some.