Google Reader Gets Search - Finally!

Perhaps they were overshadowed by the iPod announcement, but yesterday Google announced a feature in Google Reader that we all have been dying for - SEARCH. Unbelievably, up until now, the company known for "organizing the world’s information" neglected to include a search box into their popular online RSS feed reader, Google Reader.  The new search feature lets you use keywords to find items in your subscriptions and you can filter it to search "All Items," Shared Items, Starred Items, or by tags. If you subscribe to someone’s shared items, it can search those too. A couple of other tweaks to Reader were also announced at the same time. For example, you can now hide the side navigation by clicking on the separator to its right. Unread counts now go to 1,000, so that you can know just how far behind you are (oh great, now we can really obsess). And finally, Google Reader now lets you use the forward and back buttons like it’s a webpage to move between folders and subscriptions that you’ve navigated to. Google Reader is now perfect.