The Last Podcast

After all the Apple announcements today, Google must have felt envious and hence updated the Google Reader.

A search function now graces the screen, with an option to only search in specific folders.

Nice little update, though I am not sure I will use it much.

Here is the real kicker, though. Instead of the nice, reassuring number of ‘100+’ unread feeds, it now displays the actual number of unread items, unless it is more than 1000 (mine just says 1000+ right now…).

Oh, and there is now a little arrow that allows you to completely hide the list of subscriptions, similar to what you can already do in Google Maps.

Also, the “loading” message now shows up in yellow on the to of the screen.

Update: Haven’t seen many people comment on these new features yet, but here are a few I just found:

http://blog.radioactiveyak.com/2007/09/google-reader-ui-update.html

http://www.parislemon.com/2007/09/google-reader-upgrades-to-better.html

http://joshkim.org/2007/09/05/google-reader-updated/

http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2007/09/google-reader-finally-gets-a-search-feature/

Update 2: The Google Reader blog has the official announcement.

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