Searching - BOLLOCKS!
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A few notes on Searching:
NONE OF IT ACTUALLY WORKS. This is the important thing to remember. If you thought that a blog might be a good place to simply remember things - forget it, because unless you know where you put something you won't be able to find it.
The Blogger 'Search this Blog' feature simply does not work at all. I was on to their 'Help' service about it and got nothing but runaround. If you go to Google itself and search within the blog URL it is about as good as Technorati, but the Technorati interface with the button in the sidebar is a little easier to use.
The Technorati 'Search this Blog' feature sometimes works, but does not always find everything and does not search Comments. The Technorti servers are most often bogged so performance is a problem; and when things break (most of the time) there is no clear indication - so you are left just not knowing. As well, there is no way to control the size or whitespace around the Search button, and the thing opens in the same window. All in all - not that great, but slightly better than Blogger.
CTRL F ('Find') works but only for the contents of the currently visible page.
I have not (yet) found a way to invoke the CTRL F search from a button.
Silly isn't it - all this nonsense about Google growing like topsy because of a 'superior' searching capability and in the end it is a bollocks.
The SEARCH THIS BLOG link on the sidebar is Google - the best of a bad lot.
For the future: having learned the hard way that none of it works there are some techniques I wish I had been more careful with:
- be careful and include everything in Tags
- copy the Tags into the Table of Posts
- somehow figgure out how to get CTRL F on a button
Tags: Google, Blogger, Technorati, Searching, Bollocks.
NONE OF IT ACTUALLY WORKS. This is the important thing to remember. If you thought that a blog might be a good place to simply remember things - forget it, because unless you know where you put something you won't be able to find it.
The Blogger 'Search this Blog' feature simply does not work at all. I was on to their 'Help' service about it and got nothing but runaround. If you go to Google itself and search within the blog URL it is about as good as Technorati, but the Technorati interface with the button in the sidebar is a little easier to use.
The Technorati 'Search this Blog' feature sometimes works, but does not always find everything and does not search Comments. The Technorti servers are most often bogged so performance is a problem; and when things break (most of the time) there is no clear indication - so you are left just not knowing. As well, there is no way to control the size or whitespace around the Search button, and the thing opens in the same window. All in all - not that great, but slightly better than Blogger.
CTRL F ('Find') works but only for the contents of the currently visible page.
I have not (yet) found a way to invoke the CTRL F search from a button.
Silly isn't it - all this nonsense about Google growing like topsy because of a 'superior' searching capability and in the end it is a bollocks.
The SEARCH THIS BLOG link on the sidebar is Google - the best of a bad lot.
For the future: having learned the hard way that none of it works there are some techniques I wish I had been more careful with:
- be careful and include everything in Tags
- copy the Tags into the Table of Posts
- somehow figgure out how to get CTRL F on a button
Tags: Google, Blogger, Technorati, Searching, Bollocks.
