I’ve been waiting a long time for this. I remember this was one of the things with Google Reader I found annoying. A Google product accessing a lot of data and no search support? Anyway, now it’s here, and it works as expected :) First thing I noticed was a search that found 500 items, only showed the first 60. Hmmmm…, that was no fun. No paging or anything. But then I noticed it automatically loaded new items when I scrolled to the bottom. Nice!

Another not so new feature is the increased unread counter. Previously, if you had more than 100 unread items it displayed 100+, now it’s increased to 1000 and if exceeded will show 1000+.

At 12:00 CET (after my lunch) I poked around in Google Reader looking for some interesting blog posts. I found some that I wanted to email my friends, but I couldn’t get access to the blogs were they originated. It turns out that FeedBurner was down! Since the urls have a redirect through FeedBurner I couldn’t access them. I tried to access the blogs directly and found another weird behavior. Since many bloggers (including myself) access different features from FeedBurner, the blog page only loads the first blog post and waits until the FeedBurner request times out before continuing. This happens to every blog post on the page, which takes a lot of time!