To be clear, my attempt to coin the word frieNDA has not been much of a success.
How do I know?
Well, I searched for links to the article, or uses of the term, in a few of the obvious places. It’s been eight days, so I wouldn’t necessarily expect that web-wide indexes have been updated fully, especially for a random blog post. But my first search (surprise) was Google’s main web search, courtesy of the Safari search box, which saves removing fingers from the keyboard. And my post defining frieNDA came up first!?
So I followed up with Yahoo, MSN, and then Technorati. Only Google even had the post in its results. The big three all politely asked me if I meant to search for friend instead, a reasonable thought.
Anyway, Google wins this one. Whether it’s a good thing for web search that one single post, apparently unlinked to, can shoot to the top of Google results is left for the audience to decide. Below are the four screenshots, all taken on the morning of September 21, 2005.
Yahoo
MSN
Technorati
