February 25, 2002
Blog Topic Search With Google
Here’s something fun: see the “Google It!” link following each post? Click it to initiate a Google search on the topic of that particular post. Since the search text is based on the title of the post (something you don’t see here, but appear in the syndicated XML and JS feeds) I’ll have to be careful and make sure each post title is descriptive and makes sense. Which I should be doing anyway. See? I love CMS. (Afterthought: it really is too bad that Google doesn’t even have a low-level XML service for the rest of us — I have a couple of great ideas, but they all involve scraping and scrubbing the search results. It’s not worth it. And by the way, where’s my XML-RPC based W3 validator?)








