Ronan’s Blog

I’ve been using Google Reader for my RSS and Podcast subscriptions for the past few months and its pretty damn good. However, today I wanted to lookup an old item that I had read yesterday. Finding it was not easy. Since Google made their name in searching, I assumed that the Search function would have been a prominent tool on the page. It is not.

To Search, I had to mark all items as read, then click the “Home” link, then click the “directory” link (which only appears when all your items are read), the use the “Search for feeds” functionality to search for feeds with the keyword you are looking for and hopefully turn up the result you want on the first page.

Not exactly ideal.

I think that a Search function is required to search your existing feeds, allowing you to specify a date range also. I know that I’d use it.