Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Significant Query

Today I will define a term I made up:

Significant Query
A significant query is a string of search terms that return the result you're looking for on the first page of results.

Significant queries are the results of strong Google-fu, which is the art of knowing how to search for what you're looking for.


Example:
Earlier today I was looking for this image as a reference to something:
(NSFW Warning)
http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/532218/

As of this post, searching for "takamachi_nanoha" on danbooru returns 189 pages of results, and "takamachi_nanoha yuri" returns 20 pages.

However, once I figured out how to spell cunnilingus, searching for "cunnilingus takamachi_nanoha" returns exactly 1 page and my goal is easily seen.
http://danbooru.donmai.us/post?tags=cunnilingus+takamachi_nanoha&commit=Search