Saturday, April 30, 2005

Google's hung up on search

Here's a hell of a lot of steps to add a link to categories to your blog
How to use delicious for blogger. You can manage to get the actual links in your blog by using Technorati tags inserted inside using Greasemonkey and then using the results of searches as the links. But

  • It's a bit slow as the search gets generated each time.
  • One time a character was dropped and it made the links seventy pixels tall instead of 70% of the rest of the pixels. Maybe this was my fault.
  • Sometimes the 70% text is difficult to read.
  • It's not going to be perfect because it will be search based.
  • I would like to have users be directed to a category automatically when they enter. (Probably and easy JavaScript hack.)
Google seems hung up on search. Sometimes pre-defined structured data can be a good thing. It's why Yahoo's People Finder returns a few likely results with their address and phone number while searching for someone's name in Google returns information about the summer camp attendance of somebody's father.

1 comment:

John said...

So you're right.... I got tired of bookmarklet city & switched to firefox and greasemonkey. I have modded the script to output a single set of tags that are valid in both technorati and del.icio.us. Pretty cool.