The most noticeable change is visual. Google has been updating all of its services to look more like Google+, with fewer blues and more greys, and the now-familiar black bar across the top of the screen. Reader blends in more with other apps, and looks similar to the updated Gmail.

'Like' No More

The Like button is . Moving forward, you can use the +1 button to show your "like" for something, if you don't mind that information appearing in your Google+ stream. However, old "likes" weren't migrated to Google+, so it's as if they've been erased. Google points out that you can download your data, so you can end up with a file that contains information about your "likes", but what can you do with it? There is no comparable service you can upload those "likes" to if you want that information to be accessible again.

Share via Google+

If you were using the Share button to pass along posts to your colleagues, it's time to find a new way. Reader's built-in sharing tool offered an easy way to share articles privately with specific people. The old sharing tools are gone, and , which allows you to share with your Circles of contacts. This, of course, will require everyone you share with to be on Google+. In our testing, publicly sharing an item, which works similarly as with the old Like option, works well and is as easy as clicking the +1 button. Private sharing is another story. Despite using +1 to do a limited share of a post, the item showed up on the public +1 tab in our Google profile, even though the Google+ post confirmed it had limited visibility.