Wednesday, May 12, 2004
BBC NEWS | Technology | Google revamps blogging service
Blogger just got better - but the one feature they haven't yet implemented, despite being owned by the world's most popular search engine, is a search feature!
as blogs become inevitably become bigger and more persistent over time, we need an efficient way of searching through the content to find what we're looking for. only this weekend I struggled to find a post in this blog that I knew contained a link I wanted to cite in a paper, only to find that searching this very blog was less than easy. yes, there's a search box, but you have to be logged in as an editor to get to it, and even then it's only a basic search.
I long ago gave up on Favourites as a way of storing interesting links - these days it seems quicker to just search for it every time. well maintained blogs that people use as working journals are a useful resource on the web - even if it's just for an individual's use, but where's the search?
Blogger just got better - but the one feature they haven't yet implemented, despite being owned by the world's most popular search engine, is a search feature!
as blogs become inevitably become bigger and more persistent over time, we need an efficient way of searching through the content to find what we're looking for. only this weekend I struggled to find a post in this blog that I knew contained a link I wanted to cite in a paper, only to find that searching this very blog was less than easy. yes, there's a search box, but you have to be logged in as an editor to get to it, and even then it's only a basic search.
I long ago gave up on Favourites as a way of storing interesting links - these days it seems quicker to just search for it every time. well maintained blogs that people use as working journals are a useful resource on the web - even if it's just for an individual's use, but where's the search?
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