July 20, 2003

bad searching

Tangognat writes:

"One problem with being a librarian and having a blog, I have a sick urge to play reference librarian for the people that are appearing in my referrer logs looking for news about Dirk and Steve drinking."

Maybe the searcher was drinking the same stuff that Dirk and Steve were drinking when he/she performed the search.

Posted by Steven at July 20, 2003 12:05 AM | TrackBack
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I can relate! And I'm not even a librarian. There's the additional frustration that referrer logs don't include an e-mail address where I can send the answers.

I've got a section in my sidebar called "Frequently Googled Questions" where I send people whose searches do actually relate to things I can offer them; I've had to resist salting it with pointers to stuff they'd be better off looking for elsewhere.

Posted by: Prentiss Riddle on July 21, 2003 01:07 PM
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