Findability

WordPress offers ‘instant findability’. It means ” The instant you publish, searchers will see it at the top of the ‘most recent results’ when they search for any terms in your post”. That’s a wonderful thing of course, but definitely not what I had in mind when I read the term for the first time:

I started working at a school 4 weeks ago and got a key that fits in every door of the building. These keys are very important and you need them every time you teach. So I put it on a colourful keychain and decided that I would always keep it in the front pocket of my bag. And as a very responsable teacher, I would never, NEVER leave this very expensive key out of sight. Well, the key turned out to have an ‘instant looseability’. The last thing I remember is that after my very first day of work I put it next to the stove in the kitchen and after that it has completely disappeared.

I know that I will find the key back. In some miraculous ways the lost always show up. But in the meantime I feel really dumb every time I have to borrow a colleague’s. Why is there not some device that you can stick on your key, wallet or phone that goes off when you whistle or press a big red button somewhere at home? Or even better, when the distance between you and the item is more than let’s say, 2 meters? Although then it won’t work if you are looking for something that’s in your pocket or that you are actually holding! There must be some valid reason for this question. Or perhaps I should invent something myself.

I am hopeful that someday we will be able to increase the intrinsic value of findability in things from the real world. Make it instant and then have a 3-year warranty on it! You know, if it’s possible on the internet…

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    • authorannmarie
    • April 21st, 2009

    I was wondering if you could take a look at my blog and offer any suggestions for tags or categories as I cannot see it when I use the tags I have in your search engine. The only way I find my blog is to click on my link so if I was someone else I might never see it. Thx

    • Clare Froggatt
    • April 22nd, 2009

    Hi Leonie, I’m new to wordpress and trying to find my way. How funny, i wasn’t looking for your post but I instantly related to what I read! I’m a teacher too and always loose my key. It is so scary when it happens. Our office lady makes you feel like you have committed a heinous crime when you loose your key. Like yours, my key always turns up miraculously before I have to report it. I hope my blogs start turning up on other peoples search engines as easily as yours did on mine. Clare

    • naturallyskincare
    • April 23rd, 2009

    You post is truly a “find” for that is what happens to me often! Yes, I wish there was some way to put an inexpensive computer chip onto keys, cell-phone, important dated documents, etc. What a good idea, let me know when you have your invention perfected! Thanks for the good article.

    Milly

  1. Thanks for the information,it will help me in the future. Keep up the good work.Thanks again.

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