Google's goal in life is to organize the world's information. It is ironic, then, that Google Reader, which is one of their most powerful tools for doing that, receives so little attention. I can hardly imagine a day without spending a great amount of time looking at my Google Reader account. With it, information from all over the world, from the New York Times to the Mainichi Daily News out of Tokyo, from the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph in the UK to Le Monde in France (conveniently translated into English by Google Reader) flow into my account all the time. Not to mention a dozen tech news sites and blogs and a ton of Twitter feeds (the sort that I want to follow, but I don't want clogging up my own Twitter feed).
Unfortunately there are drawbacks. The interface can be a bit clunky. While it does give you the glorious ability to search feeds, it can be inconvenient to actually select the feed you want to search. And yes, you can type into the drop-down box, but that only searches for what you type in the beginning of the name of the feed. What I want is for the search box to default to whatever feed or folder you're looking at, which is exactly what Gmail has done for ages.
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