Do not make every occurrence of a keyword a link” is not “Do not make every occurrence of a specific string a link”
My past self didn’t understand this.
- The word “keyword” was poorly resolved.
Why not “make every occurrence of a keyword a link?”
- That would be the same result as if you had searched for that keyword on the search page.”
- If so, what is the problem?
- Implicitly assuming “lots of hits” is problematic.
- If you search and get 100 hits, you can no longer list the results of that search at a glance.
- If this is the case, then there is no harm if we limit ourselves to things that don’t hit a lot.
- Another implicit assumption is “search.”
- Implicitly assumes a human search on that substring.
- Assuming you can come up with it as a search term.
- But humans don’t come up with every substring as a search keyword.
- For example, I’m writing this right now, and I did a search for “all appearances,” and I got four hits, one of which was related but not linked to the article.
- It would be useful to offer the following: “If you search for this string, you will find a few pages that may be relevant.
- Strictly speaking, it is not a stand-alone string, but - Share Information” Issue
relevance - concentration (of one’s attention)
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