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Lack of search remains the ban of many a Google Reader fan, but with the introduction of the new offline mode, Blogger Raúl Ochoa has come up with a [Greasemonkey script][2] that provides a stopgap solution until Google can get its act together.
There's a couple of serious limitations, namely that you'll need a Greasemonkey and Google Gears capable browser and the search is limited to the last 2000 items since that's all that Google Gears indexes.
But it's definitely the easiest solution I'm aware of for adding (albeit limited) search capabilities to Google Reader.
And Ochoa says he's looking into ways to use a true fulltext search (at the moment the search relies on a "LIKE" query) as well as some way to "maintaining a database table with all the Google Reader items, and not only the ones that are synchronized with Google Reader."
Perhaps, Google will someday figure out a way to add search to Google Reader, but in the mean time if you're desperate for a solution this one works.
Note though that Ochoa's script doesn't work with [Jon Hicks' Google Reader theme][3]. The search box shows up, but won't accept input.
[found via [Lifehacker][1]]
[1]: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/featured-greasemonkey-user-script/add-search-to-google-reader-with-google-reader-gears-search-268151.php "Add search to Google Reader with Google Reader Gears Search"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/04/make_google_rea.html "Make Google Reader More Mac-like"
[2]: http://rau1.com/blog/2007/06/11/google-reader-gears-search-english "Google Reader Gears Search"
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