Google Reader Finally Gets Search

Google Reader is a bit of an oddity for two reasons. First, it is a Google product that has succeeded, a rarity in and of itself, but stranger still is that it is one of only a few Google products that had no search function. Yes, despite the mountain of date contained within any RSS reader, and the data mining tools Reader already had (Trends), Google never put that particular feature in there.
Fret no more! Google Reader now has a search box, which can search all of your subscribed RSS feeds, a particular feed, or a particular tag. The search results even appear in the Reader interface, not on a seperate page as a seperate service (Bloglines, pay attention!).
Reader also added some nice other features. Unread item counts now go up to 1000 (why won’t it just give the real number? That’s just stupid). […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg