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"Google is usually at most only one day behind reasonably well-trafficked blogs."

Which I, niggling little person than I am, find entirely unsatisfactory, just as I do that technorati picks up on posts half a day or more later, and Kinja just clumps things up every half day or so.

This will not do, I cry out!

If the web stands for one thing, it is instant gratification!

Stands, but yet falls too many times.

I desire and need far greater responsiveness! Everyone get to work on this! Do I need to sell you posters from When Worlds Collide [the movie], or something?!

Posted by: Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 12-30-04 3:28 AM

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Um, well, then why not just replace that useless box with an actual Google site search box? I have one of those on my humble site, and it works great.

Posted by: Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 12-30-04 9:40 AM

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Do tell. How'd you do it? I recall some Google site search button that "customized" results, but I didn't want that.

Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 12-30-04 9:44 AM

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<form action="http://www.google.com/search" name=f>

<input type="hidden" name="hl" value="en" />

<input maxLength=256 name=q value="" />

<input type=submit name=btnG value="Google search" />

</form>

Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 12-30-04 9:52 AM

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Thanks, Ben. But that doesn't get me a site search, does it? (And, wouldn't you know it, I'm searching for something on the blog right now that Google hasn't indexed.)

Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 12-30-04 9:55 AM

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oh right. Duh. Adding <input type="hidden" name="q" value="site:unfogged.com" /> to the form seems to fix that.

Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 12-30-04 10:08 AM

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What Ben said.

Posted by: Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 12-30-04 10:28 AM

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Thanks guys. I'll add it when I have a bit of time.

Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 12-30-04 10:30 AM