Blogger Search - the vast emptiness
Why is Blogger Search so bad while searching on a specific blog? I never get any good results (in fact, in several cases, no results at all) while searching for many of the keywords on my own blog. For some of the keywords like names of films about which I've written earlier, I get no results from what should be a very small result set. The problem either is that their indexing sucks or it could be because of some heuristic optimisation (talking somewhat out of my hat). Either way, it's the worst Google feature I've used.And, like George, I've discovered the exceedingly irritating news that Webstats, the site-stats provider for this blog, was instrumental in a silly popup appearing and so wiped it out from all my blogs. Now, why would a site do something as stupid as that and risk losing its customers. Must confess that I don't contribute to their monthly revenue, but such a lot of ill-will. Read the details at George's.
2 comments:
You are so right about blogger search! Typically, for searching within a blog (particularly for stuff that was written at least a month ago), I prefer to use the "site:http://xxxxxxx" along with the keyword. Using the regular Google search. It really works wonders!
I remember telling you about that popup sometime back. It was rather weird because it didnt popup on all occasions.
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