Re: Who What Where When!

Maybe I'm missing something. Why not replace all of those with one googlism:// tag?

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";

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Re: Re: Who What Where When! by menolly (Hermit) on Nov 07, 2003 at 20:19 UTC
You're missing the `type` param.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Who What Where When! (!type) by tye (Sage) on Nov 07, 2003 at 20:48 UTC
Testing, it appears that the who/what/where/when makes no difference on the results you get back and so I'm left to assume that it is only used for googlism to clump "popular" queries into groups. It also doesn't appear to be required. I don't particularly like using up so many words for so little functionality. I don't think it makes total sense to have a link that can get clicked over and over be a candidate for becoming a "popular query". And I don't think the words are mnemonic for googlism nor vice versa. So I'd be more inclined to have a single `[googlism://...]` link type instead. I just worry that they'll get tired of people thwarting their cute "popular query" compiling and make the type required one day. Oh well, they'll likely change the interface in some other way one day anyway (or just disappear)... - tye	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Who What Where When! (!type) by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Nov 09, 2003 at 10:57 UTC
Or maybe we could appease the lazy typists with `ism://`? Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]