Over the last couple of days I’ve occupied my spare time building a custom search engine using Google’s search service. You’ll find it at the top of my sidebar. I have painstakingly included every single blog listed on the Top 100 Sober Blogs to be the exclusive sites searched for results on this engine. In other words, I’ve built a search engine that compiles the collected experience, strength and hope of over 150 sober bloggers. In the interest of full disclosure I should point out that I directly benefit from the Google advertising on the results pages and that may actually make this blog become self supporting. It is certainly better than placing advertising directly on the blog. But I also thought that it would be a great thing to have, a search engine that was specific to those in recovery looking for personal stories.
If any of you are interested in placing this search box on your own blog or if you’re interested in adding other blogs to the engine send me an email - outofgas@thelastchancetexaco.com - and I’ll send you the code to include or add the blog.
Peace out.
The Last Chance Texaco salutes . . .
Search the experience, strength and hope of over 150 recovery bloggers.
Copyright Information
The Last Chance Texaco by Chris Mecham is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Information on use beyond the scope of this license can be found at Terms of Use.
Domain registration and hosting services provided by Indichosts.net In addition to the extraordinary value Indichosts offer with their service, they provide the best customer support an amateur like me could ever hope for.
4 comments
Comments feed for this article
Trackback link
http://thelastchancetexaco.com/2008/06/09/in-my-spare-time-im-a-geek/trackback/
June 9, 2008 at 7:54 am
warrior scout
firstly, i wanted to say that your pic on facebook made me smile… it looks so much more serene than the ones i’d seen up to that point.
secondly, i think we all know you are a geek, but that’s a side issue. most of us with blogs are to some extent, i would imagine.
i think the google search bar for sober blogs is a great idea. would you mind emailing me the code?
and lastly, have you stephen’s post on “prison’s a bitch”? i think it merits a look. and do you think we could list his blog on the top 100 site?
hope you have a smile in your heart..
June 9, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Marc
In my spare time I’m a Greek.
(I don’t think I’m in top Sober Blogs, but I’m just not motivated to jump through whatever hoops to get on there. I’m actually quite the technophobe. If I had the money, I’d hire you to jazz up my blog.)
June 9, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Chris
You’re kidding, right? You’re doing fine, Marc. And I’ve added you to the search. I’m pretty sure you will be the exclusive return for rattlesnake - among other things.
June 9, 2008 at 8:06 pm
BoyGrowsUp
Hey Chris. Lovin’ the search engine; I’m actually playing around with one for my company’s web site, except it is the version that does NOT run ads.
Glad you are doing ok. I worry when I don’t see almost-daily posts from you — you are top of my blog reading list! (No pressure there, lol…)