Comments on: Google Reader Duplicate Item Improvement

By: Alistair

Alistair — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:00:30 +0000

You’ll probably find that is being caused by the newspapers amending their articles as more information comes to hand & their CMS automatically publishes to RSS on every amendment. A lot of software these days has the ability to choose to republish the article to RSS on an amendment, as you can imagine it annoys people if they are just fixing a typographical error.

In your particular example, having Google Reader filter out the duplicates and only showing the most recent version (with a note that it has excluded n other versions which you could see if needed) would be another excellent improvement for the product.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:59:48 +0000

I wish Google Reader would do something about the duplicates. They could start by eliminating duplicates from THE SAME source. I get so many duplicates from the Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, and Daily Tribune that it makes it almost impossible to keep-up with NEW stuff when so much OLD stuff keeps re-appearing.

By: Ionel Maries

Ionel Maries — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:16:31 +0000

You could try this userscript: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/42498
Very (very) crude but works for most of my dupes.

By: manu

manu — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:46:26 +0000

I would LOVE this feature! I use multiple tracking mechanisms and some come in to my reader and am inundated by duplicate items. If anyone finds a reader which removes duplicates, can u pls let me know?