Google introduced some new features to its Feed Reader product, most important and much awaited of which is the search function. With the new search box, Google Reader users can now search for keywords to find relevant items that gets buried into their Reader pages.
Nobody knows why the Google Reader guys took this long to put the search feature into the Google Reader. Nonetheless, it is a very useful feature especially for Reader users who have tons of feed subscriptios into their Reader interface. The search feature also crawls items shared between Google Reader users.
Aside from the search feature, Google Reader users can now hide the side navigators for a wider feed items’ display window. Also, unread item counts has been up to 1,000 limit, so Reader users would know how far behind they are with their feed readings.
On behalf of Google Reader users everywhere: It’s about time!
I wonder if the search indexes all the items in the feed or just from the point in time you subscribed to it. I must find a way to check that out.
One small point Arnold – with the sidebar in view, Google Reader posts are a maximum 580px wide. However, if you press the “u” key to hide the sidebar, the posts expand to the maximum width of your browser window.
I was all over this back in June in my post How Can Google Reader Have No SEARCH Box?
– Good to see they’ve responded. Finally.
Yeah Eric, I always found it odd that Google Reader never used search.
Guess they were waiting for the Bloglines redesign to put it out :)
They must have been too busy providing search functions for other sites that they forgot about putting it on one of their own product.
Or they have been searching for that” search” since it was misplaced a long time? Which explains the title of the post at the Google Reader blog — “We found it!” :)