Scrap Booking

I shoot off my keyboard writing letters to editors (not so much anymore) and commenting on letters and columns at some news paper web sites etc.. Somewhere, in one of those lines of comments, I ran across a roundup of the comments by someone on some topic. I thought it would be a cool tool to analyze threads with then I thought about rounding up some stuff I was interested in and slowly my brains got though to me to look at my own comments. During all that I was using Google to do site searches. I discovered that on at least a couple of those web sites their built in Google or Yahoo search thing that offers the radio button to search the site didn't return even one hit when I put in my user label or user name that appears in the "posted by [user]" on the comments I make. So then I started over from the first page but used the "search this site" option from the Google tool bar on my browser. That worked pretty good it seemed. but after looking at the results for a little while I figured out there was something missing. So I went over to dogpile and searched the site again using the same search. Bam, more stuff. So I wonder if there is somewhere that a person could put together a search of several specific domain sites for a few specific terms and actually get everything. Or do search engines now just return enough stuff to make you think they did something and keep you coming back so they can sell their advertising? Someone needs to make a search thingy that will look at search results from different search engines and analyze the sites being searched for evidence to things that trick or block searches and come up with a "Confidence Score" for some kinds of search results.

I decided to scrap book my stuff at a couple of sites by making a link to the search results from dogpile. Maybe I'll get around to looking for other search combiners so if anyone knows of good ways of doing this especially if they have some confidence meter thingy and a way to avoid the links to ads that are included in some returns, let me know. Somebody needs to make program for this that'll run on desktops and phones and can be sold one search at a time. I'm not getting much scrapbooking done but what the hey.

Here and here are results for the San Angelo Standard Times.

Here are the results for the Abilene Reporter News.