It’s one of those features that we’ve all been waiting patiently for, and it’s finally here - Google Reader now includes a search box that lets you perform full searches through your feed subscriptions.

It did take a while for the feature to make it into the product, but the implementation is superb. Besides searching through new posts, it also finds matches in older posts that have already been marked as read, as well as in starred and shared items. The familiar “j” and “k” keyboard navigation shortcuts work as expected on the search results page too.

A couple of other notable changes also made it into this push. The official Google Reader blog has all the details. The best just got better. =)

On Monday’s episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen made up a fictitious URL called ShirtlessHunksBaggingGroceries.com during a segment about the effects of gay populations on property prices.

Needless to say, the domain name was registered shortly thereafter. But even more amusing is the fact that “shirtless hunks bagging groceries” became the fourth most popular search term on Google that day.

Watch out Digg and Slashdot; this is the Colbert Effect!