What is Google Currents?
Google Currents is a news aggregation and content curation mobile app developed by Google. It was launched in 2011 and discontinued in 2021.
Currents provided users with a feed of articles, content snippets, and videos from news sources, websites, and blogs that they subscribed to. It aimed to allow users to easily view updates and share news across a variety of topics and interests.
Some key features of Google Currents included:
- Aggregated content from leading publishers and over 300 partner sources into a customizable feed.
- Allowed users to subscribe to topics, publishers, blogs, and news sources.
- Supported offline reading with content synchronized across devices.
- Provided options to share articles and content via email, social media or link.
- Available as a mobile app for Android and iOS.
After being available for 10 years, Google Currents was officially discontinued in 2022, with Google migrating users and features to a new service called Google News.
Feedly, Flipboard, Reeder , Cronycle, Yomu - RSS Reader, NewsMix, Google Play Newsstand, Sourcerer, Heartfeed RSS Reader, KrISS feed, Hubii, Elfinite are some alternatives to Google Currents.