Full Text Searchability

anyone who thinks organizing information by keyword [ie, searchability] is counterintuitive has obviously never been in my brain.

because you only really know how important full-text search is when you've had to dig (swim?) through hundreds of pages of reading in the last week, all seemingly having lots to do with each other (amazing intertextuality -- hello, this is graduate school!), and you're trying to remember in what article it might have been that you might have seen (or were you dreaming?) a certain sentence -- or was it a phrase? or a clause? what's the difference, anyway? -- which might have been on the left hand side of the page, perhaps in the middle, and which might have been about the simple-mindedness of the peasantry.

god damn the complexity and frustration of the partially-impaired, very overwhelmed visual memory.

this is why, when google finally announced and implemented a search box for google reader <http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/find-needle-in-feedstack-with-google.html>, i was thrilled. anything -- anything! -- to make me feel less muddled right about now, seriously.

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update, 4:07 pm:

omg it's absolutely amazing. you can search all posts, or search certain folders, or search just certain blogs. thank you, gods!