Reading (For Dummies)

On Google

I thought of a new idea for Google searching today.

Most bloggers have some idea or see a news story and use google (or some search engine) to dig up a few links about the background of the story, so that they can present these nice links in their blog and keep readers from having to do the same search. But what if you're really lazy and don't feel like sifting through all the search results to find the best explanation of what it is you're looking for? It would be cool if google (or some search engine) included an "individualized page rank" type system. How it works? You provide a link to some key words you talk about, and it takes you to search results for the terms. The search results are specific for your particular blog/blog entry, in that a page rank is applied to your specific results. So if 500 people read your entry and click the term search, they have to weed through the search results for a few seconds to find the most appopriate article. As more people pick the same article, it gets moved to the top of the heap, until it reaches a threshhold popularity, and the term search link in your blog entry changes from linking to all search results to the specific most popular one. It'd take community blogging to a whole new level.

Or it might be kind of pointless. Who knows.