Ask and ye shall receive apparently. Yesterday I wrote about a nice little update to Google Reader that replaced the near-meaningless (100+) unread stories with an actual number – at the end I asked for one big thing missing, search – today is the BIG update. Finally – and I do mean finally when you consider that Google is first and foremost a search company – Google has added a search feature to Google Reader!

This is a feature that could end up being worth the wait though as it’s more than just a simple cover-all-bases search, you can drill down and search in specific folders AND specific feeds – as well as shared and starred items and you might imagine.

Thank you Google, I think writing this blog will now be a whole lot easier without having to specifically remember which of my 10,000,000 starred items I wanted to reference.

Now I would just like to see some small improvements to the tagging system and some Googler Reader-wide stats on starred and shared items, and you will have officially graduated to becoming my new homepage.