{"id":164,"date":"2006-12-01T17:11:07","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T23:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.wordpress.com\/2006\/12\/01\/google-reader-search\/"},"modified":"2006-12-01T17:11:07","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T23:11:07","slug":"google-reader-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/google-reader-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Reader search?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <a href=\"http:\/\/scobleizer.com\">Robert<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=site:scobleizer.com+google+reader\">many glowing recommendations<\/a>, I&#8217;ve switched from using Flock&#8217;s built-in RSS feed reader, to using <a href=\"http:\/\/reader.google.com\">Google Reader<\/a>, and so far, I&#8217;m loving it. It&#8217;s a fast, dead simple, &#8220;river of news&#8221; format that just clicks with me. But after using the tool for a couple of weeks, I have to ask: where&#8217;s the search function?<\/p>\n<p>I use <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\">Google Docs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/calendar.google.com\">Google Calendar<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/gmail.com\">Gmail<\/a>, and various other Google-based tools. Every single one has a huge search bar at the top that allows you to effortlessly search and sift through your content. Now, doesn&#8217;t an RSS feed reader seem like the <em>perfect tool<\/em> in which to include a search function? I would certainly think so, but a search bar appears to be completely absent from the design of Google Reader, which is definitely a shame. There&#8217;s been several moments in forums or talking with colleagues where I&#8217;ve wanted to refer back to a news item I had read just a few minutes or even a couple of hours ago. But I can&#8217;t remember where I read it, or when. Man, wouldn&#8217;t it be nice to just type in the search term and have my relevant news from the past hour, day, or week just pop up for me?<\/p>\n<p>Just a little tip for you, Google. Just in case you&#8217;re reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Robert&#8216;s many glowing recommendations, I&#8217;ve switched from using Flock&#8217;s built-in RSS feed reader, to using Google Reader, and so far, I&#8217;m loving it. It&#8217;s a fast, dead simple, &#8220;river of news&#8221; format that just clicks with me. But after using the tool for a couple of weeks, I have to ask: where&#8217;s the search [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[269,325],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-google","tag-search","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}