Google Reader should add "Search feeds" feature ASAP

Google Reader doesn’t do search.

Coming from Google, the king of search, that’s kinda silly/funny, no? Google does it for web, and I hear Gmail does it wonderfully on mail. (I’m not actively on Gmail myself, I can’t comment how well it actually works.) So why not have Reader do it for feeds?

At least a few times every week now, I’ve had this situation where I come across a feed item that talks about something that another feed also talked and I remember sure as hell that I just read it in some of my other feeds a day or two ago. I know the exact keyword, but I don’t remember which of the other zillion feeds it was. But I’d like to get back to it so that I could maybe post a comment to either blog, helping to make a connection.

So I’d just like to punch the keyword into Google Reader, hit the “Search my feeds” button and get a list of items containing the keyword. I know that Google caches all the feed content on their side anyway, so doing this would be easy peasy for them. I hope that it’s just an oversight that it’s not already done and that it will be out of their pipeline soon.