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. =)