For a company that's primarily known for its search engine, Google's been a bit slow to add a search function to its RSS reader. The ability to search your read and unread feeds would come in handy about a thousand times a day when you're trying to recall that item you glanced at and quickly moved past.Martin Porcheron has spotted some changes in Google Reader's CSS file that hint that a search could be showing up soon. It looks like Google plans to add a search box to the right of the Google logo. Or this could all just be a big misunderstanding.
In somewhat related news, you may notice a link to your Google Reader Trends has popped up among the navigation links on the left side of the page, under your starred and shared items.
[via Googlified]
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5-31-2007 @ 5:41PM
Todd said...
I notice that Google added "facial recognition" to image searches too:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070530-facial-recognition-slipped-into-google-image-search.html
Google "street view" + Google face recognition search = ???
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5-31-2007 @ 6:10PM
Jordan Running said...
Oh, please let it be true. I've been dying for a search function since I started using Reader and never understood why it doesn't have one, seeing as it's a GOOGLE product.
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6-01-2007 @ 8:32AM
Sherif Mansour said...
Good to see that Google is doing this. Ive blogged about it a while ago, and they are actually listening to what people want! So far 2 of my Top 5 requests look like they are being implemented! http://blog.sherifmansour.com/?p=96
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6-01-2007 @ 8:34AM
James said...
Bout damn time. I can't tell you how many times I've been sorting by "oldest first" on a blog with 40+ new items, and accidentally didn't star something and the page got reloaded, or Firefox crashed, or my kid mashed the keyboard, or whatever -- and once it's marked as read, you have to trudge through the whole damn feed to find it if you want to star/share it... soooo annoying.
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6-01-2007 @ 8:42AM
Sabela said...
That´s good news, but for the time being Firefox users can also use a Greasemonkey script that lets you search using Google blogsearch directly from Google Reader.
You just have to download the Greasemonkey extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/748), restart the browser, install the script (http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/5958.user.js)... and a search box will appear in Google Reader, ready for you to use.
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6-01-2007 @ 8:42AM
Alex Leonard said...
That sounds great. I hope it's true as it's definitely been a missing feature in GReader.. And from the masters of search, you'd think they would have remembered to include it.
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