RIP Google Reader

Good grief, Google.

With the death of Google Reader, I'm starting to question my reliance on Google products. Here are the ones I use most frequently:

Gmail Google Maps Google Reader iGoogle Chrome Google Search Google Drive Google Calendar Google Analytics Google Voice Google Hangouts

What are the alternatives?

• Feedly looks promising, but the site seems to be overwhelmed by traffic. And what's their plan to monetize the service? I want to use a service that will be around for a while.
• NewBlur also looks promising, but it's going to take them a while to scale to handle the traffic migrating from Google Reader.

Here's the bottom-line: I'm going to stop relying on Google services. Google doesn't value me (or anyone else) as a customer. To them we are data they can sell to advertisers.

My first is to dump Chrome and move back to Safari.

See ya later Google.