How To Blog Tip #019: RTFM
Posted by How To BlogOkay, here’s a blogging tip for you. Have you ever visited a forum and found an inquiry whose answer can easily be found by doing a simple Google search? I see a lot of questions like this at places like Askville and Yahoo Answers. For example, someone might ask:
“What’s the name of the 14th Stephanie Plum book?”
Instead of lambasting the person for asking such a ridiculous question (and running the risk of being banned from a forum or ostracized by another forum member), simply use this cool tool:
http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=name+of+14th+Stephanie+Plum+book
Click the link above and you’ll see what I’m talking about. Isn’t that great? Simply add the query to the end of the URL (?q=name+of+14th+Stephanie+Plum+book). You could even use something like tinyurl to mask the URL you’re sending them to. Enjoy.
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 at 4:59 am and is filed under How To Blog, Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
Nice template. Where can i download it?
Hi,
Beautifull theme.
Its the first time i see one like that one …
Thanks for sharing.
Cumps
Wow! How did you do that? I thought it was just a joke (a simple URL redirection) but it’s not.. It was made to search and it did brought and redirect you to results.. I guess I wanna learn that trick..
Thank You for the tip!!!
hehe. that’s a cool one.
“Let me google it for you”.. It will surely have a great impact on the person who is asking the question. This will hammer the concept of ‘googling’ first in their head rather nicely.
Great tip, I only draw but will pass your post address to my programmer. He will know how to use it. Thanks for sharing.
Regards,
Matt Kolorowanki,
Illustrator