mashable.com — Feedburner has been a prime acquisition target for over a year, and Google needs to get into the RSS ad market. They could even merge Feedburner’s stat tracking with Google Analytics, providing all your stats in one place. The question is: why wouldn’t Google buy Feedburner?
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duck1123May 19, 2007
Google buying FeedBurner would cut out the middleman for a lot of feeds on the net.As it stands right now, FeedBurner has to hit the original source and cache that, and then Google has to hit FeedBurner and cache that for it's reader product. (and others) With this, Google could just check their FeedBurner database when it comes time to display my Reader page.
abhim8May 19, 2007
yea, then they censor your postings and steal your photos. yea, why not yahoo?
gotamdMay 19, 2007
Actually, Feedburner can also hit this feeds directly. That's what I do.
gotamdMay 19, 2007
I would rather it remain independent, but I also think Yahoo might be better than Google so far as remaining "independent" from a parent company goes.
mrviklundMay 19, 2007
Would be cool but they don't need to buy it. They could easily create their own RSS-service.