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I am a great fan of Google Reader like most of the people here. I read lots of blog feeds everyday (at least 50 of them). If you are a Google Reader'er, you must be knowing a little icon stuff shown above every line feed called "X people liked this"

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It means there are people who express that they liked this feed. In the above case it is 100+ people have liked this feed. Now, I was trying to express my likeness about this feed. How to do this? I've not seen such option elsewhere in the page. Is this something for special people?. I've spend couple minutes every day to find this option but ended up in finding nothing.

Accidentally, I found it today. This little link was present in the bottom of each feed. How lame it is to burry such a feature?

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I also found other features like share etc., beneath to each feed. This really questions the design of the page and how poorly it is placed. I think, this would've been well thought before placing this feature under each feed.

This same problem is with GMail. I've struggled earlier to find "Reply to all" option in GMail. It is also buried under hidden menus.

Dear Google, Usability matters more than Simplicity.

posted on Monday, October 19, 2009 4:01 PM