Few weeks back on 7th October ‘05 Google announced the release of web-based feed reader called Google Readerat the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco.

This is from the Google’s official announcment post at its Press Center

Google Reader is part of effort to offer Google functionality with personalized web content to make information more relevant and useful to users. Please visit Google Labs at http://labs.google.com/ to give this new product a try. A reviewer’s guide and additional press materials are available at http://www.google.com/press/guides.html.

One can read more about Google Reader at Google Reader FAQs