Love Google Reader, have ~2,500 subscriptions, it is the only RSS reader that could handle such volume -- NetNewsWire make my Mac sputter and smoke with only ~3

Love Google Reader, have ~2,500 subscriptions, it is the only RSS reader that could handle such volume -- NetNewsWire make my Mac sputter and smoke with only ~300 feeds or so. Many might be aghast at the humungous subscription set, but I do not do RSS like email -- it is more akin to a stream I surf, skim and dip. And it is lightning fast, permitting me to breeze through content in a rapid pace. That said, I am astonished at how Google has allowed it to languish and stagnate, or by adding incomplete and inconsequential features. * One of the big reasons I made the switch was the ability to search feeds, but sadly, of late, it looks like "search" (which I thought was the bread and butter Google raison d'être) functionality has deteriorated, not as robust or comprehensive as even a year ago or few months ago. * No public API. * Control to let me jump in at a given time point in the stream. Sometimes due to just mistakenly hitting a hotkey that refreshes and resets when I'm in the middle of a stream. Or it might be that I just want to jump to feeds earlier than 8 hours ago, 3 days ago, or 3 months ago.