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I suppose that's why -- since about the time Buzz was introduced -- Google's been pushing an open push publishing specification (PubSubHubbub).


... Which is not used or supported by Google+. PubSubHubbub was very much part of a different era.


How would G+ possibly use PuSH? It does not make sense. There is no use case. The main (search) Google crawler does support PUSH.


PubSubHubbub is still alive and kicking though, and Google still seem to be encouraging people to use it.

The blogpost at http://googledevelopers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/pubsubhubbub-... also mentions a Feed API.

I'm confused, I guess this means that only the sync + ui for reader is dead.


> Which is not used or supported by Google+

So, what?

> PubSubHubbub was very much part of a different era.

PubSubHubbub is very much part of now, which is why they just released a new version of the spec.




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