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How to Search Your RSS News Feed Subscriptions in Google Reader

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It had to do with peaches. But was it a recipe? Or a story? Who knows.

Google Reader knows, if you encountered the peaches in any of your subscriptions. You can search all of them easily, or restrict your query to just one feed or maybe a label. Of course, Google Reader also finds phrases and lets you exclude results containing unwanted terms.

Search Your RSS News Feed Subscriptions in Google Reader

To find items in your feeds, folders or labels:

  • Type the sought word or words in the search field at the top.
    • You can search for a phrase by surrounding words with quotation marks. '"Google Reader"', for example, finds only items containing "Google Reader" appearing as a pair.
      Inside a phrase, '*' stands in for any word. "Google Reader * * five" finds "Google Reader has found five" and "Google Reader is now five", for example.
    • To exclude a term, precede it with a '-' sign. "Google -Reader" (not including the quotation marks) finds all items that have "Google" in them, but not "Reader".
  • Optionally, restrict your search to a feed, folder or label using the All items drop-down menu.
    • You can also click in the item (right on All items and type any feed, folder or label's initial characters to restrict the selection.
  • Click Search or press Enter.

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