Website Optimizer isn’t the only Google product getting an upgrade: Google heard my prayers, and today they have been answered. Google Reader has a search capability now! And they can count higher than 100!
Hard to believe, but for some reason, before today the most popular search engine in most of the Western world didn’t have a search feature for its feed reader. Now, you can search your hundreds of daily stories to find that one you thought saw the other day on the guy with the video . . . ? Um . . . well, it’s not clairvoyant, but the Google Reader search can now help you find things a lot faster.
The Google Reader Blog notes that if you subscribe to someone’s shared items (like, I don’t know . . . Andy’s?), they’ll search them, too. I’m not sure why this had to be specified, though . . . if it’s in your feed reader, it’s indexed and searched, right? Perhaps it means that if your friend’s shared items are only excerpts, it will search their full text?
Anyway, a second boon: Google Reader will include accurate unread story counts up to 1000. (I originally typed ‘undead.’ Not the same thing.) I’m very glad for this one, too: I could never tell how much digging out I’d have to do Monday mornings with my “100+” stories.
Thanks, Google!
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Steven Bradley Says:
September 6th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
It really is funny that Google took so long to add search functionality to Reader. You’d think all Google products would have search wouldn’t you?
I guess the recent Bloglines upgrade forced their hand.
Andy Beal Says:
September 6th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
Now if only they’d add a feature to allow me to sort all feed items alphabetically – or delete duplicate stories – it would be perfect!
William Says:
September 7th, 2007 at 7:13 am
Feedster they bought has taught Google how to search feeds:)
Webmaster Money Says:
September 8th, 2007 at 3:31 am
I belive that Google will make sure that it will be perfect soon.
Michael Samuel Says:
September 8th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
I have been waiting for this feature for ages and finally it is out! thanks for the news…
Buy and sell Says:
September 8th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
That would be a logical thing to do. At the end of the day Google is a search engine.
Joeychgo Says:
September 9th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
Yes, it is logical, and i think a smart move on Google’s part.
EE Says:
September 24th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
Finally! A search company adds search functionality to one of its most popular applications. Wow. Unheard of.