Why is Feedfetcher-Google visiting my website if Google Reader and iGoogle services have been discountinued?

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I get this user agent Feedfetcher-Google; (+http://www.google.com/feedfetcher.html; 1 subscribers; feed-id=17582163705065100568) in my logs coming from a google domain even if there is no way you could read rss feeds through google and still I see there is 1 subscriber.

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Julien Genestoux On

Even though the Google Feed API has been deprecated, it's still possible that some people are subscribed to your feed(s) thru that? Also, don't forget that Google uses RSS as a discovery mechanism for its search engine.