[Google]Dance Forums[/Google]

[DanceMentor]

It's the holiday and I had some time to work on my favorite website! :D

You can now put Google tags around a word or phrase and turn it into a link to a Google search! Isn't that cool? It better be...it took me like 45 minutes. :lol:

Here are some examples:

Dance Forums
Car Dancers Club
Hustle Dancers

Here is what I typed to get the above:
[Google]Dance Forums[/Google]
[google]Car Dancers Club[/google]
[google]Hustle Dancers[/google]

[pygmalion]

Thanks, DM. You're the man! :D

[SDsalsaguy]

Thanks, DM. You're the man! :D
Hmmm, probably as good a Christmas present as you could hope for, huh Jenn? DF *and* google in one! :lol:

[suek]

Okay, duh, need some help understanding the practical application of this. I've read the post three times but don't get how I would use it.

Could you help the clueless here with a little more info? (I'll blame my denseness on my cold, if you don't mind.:oops:)

Thanks

Sue

[pygmalion]

Thanks, DM. You're the man! :D
Hmmm, probably as good a Christmas present as you could hope for, huh Jenn? DF *and* google in one! :lol:

How did you know what I was thinking? :lol: :lol:

[borikensalsero]

Okay, duh, need some help understanding the practical application of this. I've read the post three times but don't get how I would use it.

Could you help the clueless here with a little more info? (I'll blame my denseness on my cold, if you don't mind.:oops:)

Thanks

Sue

Lets say you are talking about salsa history and you would like people to see some info about it. Well you could put salsa history between google tags and have people click on it which would directly bring up google and do the search all at once.

[DanceMentor]

Okay, duh, need some help understanding the practical application of this. I've read the post three times but don't get how I would use it.

Could you help the clueless here with a little more info? (I'll blame my denseness on my cold, if you don't mind.)

Click on this:
Salsa History

This is a link to the Google search for the keyphrase "Salsa History"

The way I made was by typing this:
[google]Salsa History[/google]

[DanceMentor]

Hmmm, probably as good a Christmas present as you could hope for, huh Jenn? DF *and* google in one!

Thanks, DM. You're the man!

Thanks for the support. I really appreciate it. It truly did take me a while to get this one set up.

[Sagitta]

Another way to use this is as a substitute for commercial linking, which is only permitted in the ads/links forums. For instance, you want to recommend a link to a book/CD to make it easy to find, but the ones that come up are all stores where you can buy the item. Instead, use the Google function, with the CD/book/item title. This way all the reader has to do is click on the link, google results come up, and he/she chooses the site to go to.

I've had to edit quite a few posts in the past few days, changing them to google searches, and every time I have discovered that the google function works really well. The only drawback is an extra click. I think that the extra click is worth the effort as it keeps our forums commercial free. :) Rock, on commercial-free DF!! :D

[KevinL]

Another way to use this is as a substitute for commercial linking, which is only permitted in the ads/links forums.

I've had to edit quite a few posts in the past few days, changing them to google searches, and every time I have discovered that the google function works really well. The only drawback is an extra click. I think that the extra click is worth the effort as it keeps our forums commercial free. :) Rock, on commercial-free DF!! :D


Isn't Google a commercial site? Don't they let people pay to have their results come up at the top of a search?

[DanceMentor]

That's a good point Kevin.
No matter how you try to define "commercial link", there is always room for subjectivity. It can also be difficult judging if a member is trying to be helpful or trying to sell something. We've put A LOT of thought into this topic. You might want to look at the "Advertising" and the "Guidelines". If you have any suggestions, PM me.

The google tool might be helpful in recommending a good search to try, but I can see how it could be abused.

Above all else, I hope it will be helpful to you and others.

[KevinL]

That's a good point Kevin.

8^)

No matter how you try to define "commercial link", there is always room for subjectivity. (snip)

Above all else, I hope it will be helpful to you and others.

I'm sure the Google links will be helpful to lots of people. I just think it's funny when "commercial" products become so well known that no-one even remembers that they actually started out as commercial products. Kleenex, Crayons and Xerox copiers are the most common brand names turned product catagories.

Google is more on the line of Xerox, now that I think about it, because both of those terms started out as products but through common use turned into verbs. The last time you xeroxed something did you actually use a xerox machine? The last time you google'd something did you use google, or some other search engine?

[Sagitta]

While on the topic of searches has anyone tried out Vivisimo? Article on it on cnn.com (http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/01/05/seeing.search1.ap/index.html)

[Pacion]

Does this still work? Using the Google tags?

[standardgirl]

Okay, duh, need some help understanding the practical application of this. I've read the post three times but don't get how I would use it.

Could you help the clueless here with a little more info? (I'll blame my denseness on my cold, if you don't mind.)

Click on this:
Salsa History

This is a link to the Google search for the keyphrase "Salsa History"

The way I made was by typing this:
[google]Salsa History[/google]


huh???? I don't get this either.
There is nothing to click on. There isn't a link?
Anyone has any idea?

[MacMoto]

The tag isn't working... at least on my PC/browser (Internet Explorer on WinXP). :?

[Joe]

It's hosed. Maybe Google's on to you. ;)

[pygmalion]

Google changed or upgraded, or something, since last year, didn't they? :?