Reader's Dead and Google doesn't want us to remember that.

[hafichuk]

http://web.archive.org/web/20130702191815/http://www.google.com/reader/about/#overview-page

[mooism2]

I expect their robots.txt blocks it because (a) Reader was useless if you didn't have an account, and (b) Reader was useless without the server-side components.

Why do people ascribe malice to everything?

[steve918 → mooism2]

But, but... this is clearly some Orwellian scheme by Big Brother Google to rewrite history!

[indubitably → mooism2]

Because Google sucks.

[millzlane]

They do allow:/reader/play though, which probably redirects to /reader .