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

In reply to Re^3: Who What Where When! (!type) by tye
in thread Who What Where When! by liz

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