Google Reader and Bloglines

The information on Internet is increasing at a very fast pace. Hence, sometimes we look for some software that can help us to organize and manage all the content that we want. Feedburner provides this help. Google Reader and Bloglines are the most commonly used feed burners. Instead of checking your favorite websites everyday for updates, you can use Google Reader or Bloglines to do it for you. Information that matters most to you such as news feeds, blogs, or music are tracked by the feed burners and organized for you in your own personal web news page.

The user interface of both Google Reader and Bloglines includes folders for feeds that track read and unread items on the left side and when you click on the folder, all the information is displayed on the right side. If we compare both, I believe Google reader is much more polished and easier on eyes than Bloglines. Google reader has curves, soft colors and there is transparency for nice reading environment whereas Bloglines is just plain ugly.

When it comes to usability, I believe Google is much better because once the feed reaches 200 unread items, Bloglines don’t add new ones to feed listing. You have to look at all the feeds only then you will be able to check your newest feed. Whereas it is not so in the case of Google Reader, it keeps adding new items at the top and its unread count is 100+. If we speak about speed, in Bloglines if a feed has tons of posts that you haven’t looked at in awhile then it can be a serious drag to load. Whereas Google Reader displays only 20 items at a time and this never slow down your reading session.
At the end, overall we can say that Google Reader takes the lead in organizing and providing your information.