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If you use the stripped-down version of Gmail, make your last goodbyes—it’s heading to the Google graveyard in just a few months.

Its time for some cathartic Google grieving

The Verge argues were seeing "the end of the Googleverse. For two decades, Google Search was the invisible force that determined the ebb and flow of online content. "Now, for the first time, its cultural relevance is in question... all around us are signs that the era of peak Google is ending ...

From PageRank to Reader to Image Search, Google transformed online curation and internet virality. When did this cultural mainstay begin to lose relevance?

Turning off your YouTube watch history now leads to a blissfully blank home screen when you fire up the app or site in a web browser.

RSS is a universal, open, algorithm-free news feed you can have for free. Silicon Valley giants treat it like a secret.

Plus: Groups ask Supreme Court to say public officials can't block people, latest jobs report shows openings down, and more...

Google killed Reader in 2013, shutting down its RSS reader after years of neglect. Now, the team that built it reflects on what they made and how the web has changed in the decade since.

Today's Water Cooler

Having trouble organizing all of those articles you bookmark online? Follow this simple system to bring some sanity back to your bookmarks.