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January 01, 2005

What's Worth Looking for on This Website?

Search Brad DeLong's Website

Google
Search WWW Search www.j-bradford-delong.net

Good search engines like Google make it easy to find what you are looking for on the world wide web, or indeed on any website, including this one: <http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/>--as long as you know what you are searching for.

But how are you to figure what you you are searching for? If you are to construct a useful search, you first of all need to know a great deal of information about the information collection you are searching: you need hints as to what you might be able to find if you searched properly, and what it would be productive to search for.

The idea of the links below is that they will serve as a semi-subject-index to Brad DeLong's website: a set of key phrases that will serve as a substitute for subject headings, and that will pull up interesting results when clicked on and thus fed to Google.

Subjects Covered on This Website: (searched out by Google):

Posted by DeLong at January 1, 2005 04:27 PM

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Shucks. I thought you were alerting us to a new Google feature which would automatically generate such lists.

Handy index though!

Posted by: Mike Huben at January 1, 2005 05:16 PM

Brad, Just in case you don't hear it enough: you're great, and your site is indispensable and invaluable. You link to lots of other bloggers who are doing terrific work, and many of your commenters are informative and entertaining. Thank you. Happy New Year!

Posted by: Lee A. Arnold at January 1, 2005 05:21 PM

It is true that only three people understand how searches work...."I am still trying to think who the third person is ..." (smile)

The art of searching is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
-William Hazlitt misquoted ...

Posted by: Jozef Imrich at January 1, 2005 09:58 PM

I am greatly relieved to see that the World's Silliest Dog has its own category.

Posted by: Linkmeister at January 2, 2005 10:04 AM

"What's Worth Looking for on This Website?" - a title like that is giving a hostage to fortune.

Posted by: P.M.Lawrence at January 4, 2005 11:16 PM

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