More on related stories
I also notice a trend with the 'Related Stories' box: When I first make a post, the box is often blank; but as the post gets rebuilt due to revisions and the addition of new posts, the box starts to fill up. Often the first link that appears is a link back to this site. It's sort of a form of incremental search compilation. Or think of it as a very small history of Google.
I've actually been thinking of dropping the whole Related Stories thing: it was interesting at first, but often the results are actually completely irrelevant to the post topic. and I still haven't been able to figure out a fix for the "no stories" formatting problem I mentioned recently. On the other hand, I've found a few good links in there that happened to get trawled into the box. Any opinions among the 4 of you out there reading this?
Comments
Related links cool technically, but not useful content-wise...
Posted by: Luke | October 27, 2002 4:44 PM
I think it's interesting (sometimes) to see what the "free association" code pulls out of the Googleverse... but I don't think you really need to keep R.S. as a feature. Unless, of course, you want to. Hell, it's your site. ;)
BTW, for a split second I read the title as "Moron Related Stories." Maybe waiting until after 4:00 to eat lunch is a bad idea after all.
Posted by: GreyDuck | October 30, 2002 7:04 PM