THURSDAY, DEC 27, 2007 (News Locale) - When Google launched its Reader service for reading blogs earlier this month; its corporate advertisement outrageously claimed ‘Reader and Talk are Friends!’  

However, the promotion as well as the Reader service back-fired as the views learnt it the hard way when they realized that even a chat with a person on Google Talk enabled the person to find out and share the other’s news feed. Whether of not, the Google Reader liked it, he was hapless as Google did little to mend things.

Thus, the experiment launched by Google barely a few weeks ago to add power to its Talk service has now met with scorn. What has angered the Reader Group more is the company’s ‘irresponsible’ response to their complaints and concerns.

When the matter was raised by the Readers on blogs and posts, the Search Engine giant expressed surprise saying that they found nothing wrong in different people sharing the news feed as after all they were meant to be shared. 

If the explanation put forth by the company is taken on its face value, there seems to be little wrong in people sharing parts of each one’s Google Reader. According to a primary agreement when a person has chosen to share parts of what he receives from the Google Reader feeds with his friends on the chat list, it is normal that they would also be accessing some of your ‘secrets’.

In fact, it fulfilled Google’s purpose of enabling friends on one Google application to share things with friends on another application of the Search Engine!

So far, it’s all good. But with the introduction of the Facebook’s Beacon disaster, many users see this as a source for misusing their personal data by others. Thus, over the last few days, Google’s blogs and Reader threads are being filled with complaints and some of them angry ones too.

Many people now want the facility to be turned off as they fear that everyone related to them – family members, relatives, friends as well as business associates sharing and knowing their feeds. This is an encroachment into their privacy, they scream, adding that there is a lack of privacy security on the site now.

Now, it remains to be seen how the Search Engine giant responds to the mass disdain. Whether it will be lured to ignore the concerns of the Reader Group only time will tell.

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