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Reply to Searches

Every couple of days I stop and take a look through the stats on my blog to see how things are progressing, and I notice plenty of times where people have used certain search terms to come to my blog. Sometimes the terms are very specific, sometimes they are very vague, but I always wonder the same thing: did they find what they were looking for?

I often times wish I could some how contact the person that made a certain query to ask them if they found what they wanted to find. I wonder if they took the time to read through the post i wrote that relates to their query and found their answer. I know how I read blogs and it's often not very thorough, I figure that a majority of the time I don't find what i'm looking for specifically because I just skim over it. I do admit though that I'm probably not making it very easy for the readers to find very specific information, there's often a lot of fluff and cruft surrounding the important bits of information in my posts.

Google can you help me? I want to be able to answer the questions posed by your users' queries. Yes I already know you're going to tell me that that's what comments are for but sadly not enough people use comments. I also already know you've implemented what you call a SearchWiki^[1] and that seems to have failed miserably, but I like the idea, just wish I could contribute my own results and findings to other's SearchWiki's.

1. http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=115764 SearchWiki lets you customize your Google Web Search results by ranking, removing, and adding notes to them. [↩]