Amphigouri: varnished nonsense

Back when Bloglines was suffering some significant technical difficulties, I switched to Google Reader for tracking the feeds from a goodly number of websites. I had a number of minor gripes about GR (a post describing these has been languishing in draft status for months), two of which (ones I actually found to be my bigger complaints) have now been resolved:

• Google has now added search to the feed reader!
  I mean, srsly, how could a Google app not have search capabilities in the first place?? At long last, they’ve added search, which allows filtering by folder/tag as well as by individual subscription. Now I can finally do a feed search to see which blogs in my subscriptions are talking about certain technologies or breaking news items w/o scanning through post title after post title, and can easily recall that post-i-read-somewhere-with-the great-craft-tip-but-who-knows-where-the-heck-that-was-now. More about their search in their blog post.
• The threshold for unread posts is now 1000+ instead of 100+
  While not as annoying to me as lack-of-search, I found it frustrating that GR wouldn’t tell me how many unread items I had in my entire feed collection (or in individual subscriptions) if there were more than 100 unread. Now it proudly informs me that I’ve got 1000+ unread items altogether (yeah, I’m a bit behind in my reading), and sites like BoingBoing have 250+ unread (alas!).

Thanks, Google!

update: Bah. Annoying bit, though: they appear to have changed the javascript snippet used to display my Google Reader Shared Feed on this site. Had to recreate (difference between “publisher.js” and “publisher-en.js” and a couple url parameters, it seems). That’s irritating, though easy enough to fix, at least.

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