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Simple Search for Feeds, Saved Stories, and Blurblogs

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Search, which can easily be considered one of the most important features of a world-class news reader, is also one of the most difficult features to build.

While working on the feature, I came across a great method that allows searching through story titles, authors, and tags on a per-feed basis. It’s not perfect and it’s not the full feature, but this will get us 80% of the way there.

Also comes with a handy keyboard shortcut (and a refactored keyboard shortcut dialog).

You can also search your saved stories and shared stories. This feature will soon find it’s way to both Android and iOS, and is available today to all premium users.

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sentenza
3913 days ago
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This is great. However, I'd like to add that there is a usability feature that I am longing for. It would be great if right klick on a story title would allow opening in a new browser tab.
samuel
3912 days ago
There's a preference to turn off NewsBlur's right-click menu.
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mlupo
3913 days ago
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Fantastic! While testing out the feature for a few moments I have re-discovered some previously saved favorite stories of mine.
Canada
rtreborb
3914 days ago
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Yay! A good start to searching. In my opinion hopefully not the end
San Antonio, TX
cinebot
3914 days ago
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HURRAH!!

/balloons
toronto.
rgsunico
3914 days ago
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Another great feature for an already awesome feed reader!
sfringer
3914 days ago
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So awesome to see the continued expansion of features in NewsBlur. Membership DOES have its privileges!
North Carolina USA
FarrelBuch
3914 days ago
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Frequently, I remember that I read something months earlier and even recall starring it but for the life of me cannot recall where. Search will help.
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
smadin
3914 days ago
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Search!
Boston
ericdano
3914 days ago
Sorta useless if you are following 800+ RSS feeds and want to search for something you read but didn't save...
satadru
3914 days ago
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I'm really excited for this.. It was one of the major features I missed from google reader.
New York, NY
Cafeine
3914 days ago
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<3 Not full text but good enough for me ;)
Paris / France
SkullyFM
3913 days ago
useless for me... should at least work at the folder level
Cafeine
3913 days ago
Agreed, but I'll wait :)
jbloom
3914 days ago
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Yes! This was one of the features I wanted the most!
Columbus, Ohio

Seashell

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This is roughly equivalent to 'number of times I've picked up a seashell at the ocean' / 'number of times I've picked up a seashell', which in my case is pretty close to 1, and gets much closer if we're considering only times I didn't put it to my ear.
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sentenza
3935 days ago
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Shouldn't the p(seashell) be in the denominator and the p(ocean) in the numerator?
lauratastic
3935 days ago
yep; fixed now
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pepsy
3929 days ago
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yeah!
Michdevilish
3935 days ago
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PS: It's a shell fact
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adamgurri
3935 days ago
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bayes law of seashells
New York, NY