I’ve been using Feedly for a little while now – that seems like a good alternative.
It also integrates with Google Reader, so a good opportunity to sync your feeds before it goes.

I’ve been Feedly for a couple of months now and absolutely love it. I use the App for Ipad and Iphone and the user experience is great as you can customize how you view the feeds. Whereas before (using Google Reader) reading through all my feeds often became a chore, with Feedly it’s actually more enjoyable. The use of images and photos definitely makes a difference.

Glad to see that Feedly seems to be one of the favorites to take over from Google Reader

I’ve looked around, but haven’t found anyone talking about what will happen to Google Alerts. I set up a over 100 alerts that I pull snippets from, rewrite, compile, curate, and publish roundups with attribution and links back to the original author. Am I going to have to REDO all those alerts in another reader like Feedly? Or will it be able to read my Alerts, too?

Since the mass exodus, I was able to sign up with them, but can’t bring up the site to work with it yet. Anyone know how this affects Google Alerts?

Robin Carlisle

@kristi-hines @justinthompson @phwriter11 @samscholfield

@atlantarobin When I signed up for Feedly, it moved my Google Alert feeds over just like the rest of the feeds. The feeds themselves don’t seem to be tied to Google Reader – this is their base URL.

http://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/

I haven’t read anything about Google Alerts going way, but Google has been cutting their services bit by bit for awhile, so who knows. 

Social Mention used to be a good alternative, but their Alerts system has said it will be back in a week for the last year I think.
cc: @justinthompson @phwriter11 @samscholfield

@atlantarobin On the off chance that Google Alerts goes away, Search Engine Land just wrote about this service: http://www.talkwalker.com/alerts

If only they allowed you to import your Google Alerts. 

Thanks everyone this helped alot