your private search engine Before Google Use Your RSS Reader as a Search EngineThe idea is simple – your RSS reader (hopefully) contains hundreds of your favorite sites. Why not use its search capability before turning to Google or other search alternatives?

The rational

The search option in your RSS reader searches through all your subscription. Put differently, you have a private search engine to search the best sites on the net (why else would you subscribe to them?). Admittedly, it won’t always be the best solution, but I would keep it in mind when searching for something. After all, a recommendation on a software or a site from Lifehacker‎ , MakeUseOf, Mashable or ReadWriteWeb could be better than just finding a site through Google.
 

Example

A couple of days ago I used this method to find a software that could control my CPU fan speed. Although searching Google and Donwloads.com did provide usable results, I was not satisfied with them, and eventually used a software that had been recommended in a post I found using my RSS reader.

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