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Google Reader vs Heritrix

A side-by-side look at Google Reader and Heritrix. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Google Reader

Google Reader

News & Books

Google Reader was a popular RSS/Atom feed aggregator developed by Google. It allowed users to subscribe to feeds and view updates from blogs, news sites, and other web content in one interface. Google Reader shut down in 2013.

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Heritrix

Heritrix

Development

Heritrix is an open-source, extensible, web-scale, archival-quality web crawler project built on the Apache stack. It is designed for archiving periodic captures of content from the web and large intranets.

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