experience Gerd Saurer on 10 Sep 2007 09:20 am
Google Reader Search
As most of you will know Google Reader finally got a search function. I proposed such function also in an last post about Meta RSS feeds so at least for me it was no surprise. After so long time the feature I waited for was finally available so I started to do some demo queries. Searching for some words delivered really good search results. Then I started to try some of the more complex queries like searching for links or using the “site:” operator. None of the advanced operators worked. I really have not expected that and it looked to me they have done a new search engine just for the reader instead of using the old one that does already search for blog entires.
Today they posted an article in the goolgesystem blog with a few tips how to search for stuff in the reader which really makes me think. Why do we need a How to for a search if all the other different content searches (web, news, blogs) can be done with the same query syntax? Why they have invented the wheel again and done an new search engine just for the reader? Is Google getting to big? I do not know until now but it reminds me about several other big companies that are making this mistake over and over again.
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