14 DAY TRIAL // Well, this is quite good news. As an addicted Google Reader fan that I am, I always demanded a search technology bundled with the application that would allow me to search the feeds and find older articles without having to browse them all. The parent company Google has finally decided to implement a search box in Google Reader that does exactly what I demanded. The Google search box is placed just above your feeds on the top of the screen and enables you to search all your items, all the read feeds, the new articles or you can select a subscription and search for certain words.
"Search lets you use keywords to find items in your subscriptions (if you're looking to search all blogs, give Blog Search a try). If you subscribe to someone's shared items, it'll search those too," Mihai Parparita, Google Reader engineer, wrote today on the official blog of the company.
But this is not the only update made to Google Reader. Besides the Google Search box implemented into the product, the company also added the possibility to hide the feed navigation side using a simple tiny arrow that was usually included in the offline RSS readers. Moreover, Google Reader now displays up to 1000 feeds, a very useful update if we think that until now, it didn't show the exact number of the new articles, displaying only a 100+ mark.
"Along for the ride in the search release are a few other Reader tweaks. 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 when you come back from vacation. Finally, Reader now behaves like every other web page and lets you use the forward and back buttons to move between folders and subscriptions that you've navigated to," the same Google employee added.