Omar mentions that Google Reader finally got search. I have only just started playing with this tool (after being pointed to it by Omar’s prior post on same), and I have to agree with him. My early impressions are that it will replace my use of FeedDemon.
The lack of search was one of the major bitch issues I still had about Reader. Interestingly, however, it doesn’t appear to have a key binding for getting into the search box (unlike just about everything else you can do in reader, which does have a key binding – something that has helped it truly win my heart). Perhaps it was an oversight as part of shipping the new feature quickly. On the same “not sure if it hasn’t been added because the feature is still evolving” front: special search markup for applied tags vs. in-line keywords and phrases, etc. would be nice.
As I spend so much time on planes, my next experiment will be to see how well it does in “offline mode”. Predictably it uses Google Gears, so this will be my inaugural experience with both.
UPDATE: Chris Wetherell was nice enough to note in the comments that the “/” key is the shortcut to the search field in Reader (just as it is in GMail).
There’s supposed to be a key binding for getting into the search box, perhaps we have a bug? Try pressing “/” (like in Gmail).
I used offline mode on my flight to houston last week and it worked fine. However, when I tried to use it on the way back it never synced anything. It was just stuck at 0% for a while.
Chris – You’re quite right, the “/” works just fine. My lack of this as a guess shows how rare my use of GMail is. Of note, the help screen (brought up with “?”) does not have the search shortcut on it.