Have you ever wanted to search back for something you read in the past on FmH? Many of the site-specific search strategies don’t work because Follow Me Here doesn’t have its own domain and gelwan.com, which you may use to get here (http://gelwan.com/followme.html) is just a virtual domain pointing to http://theworld.com/~emg. So Atomz, which I used to use here, has stopped indexing FmH posts properly. You could use the syntax that limits Google’s search to one domain by adding “site:theworld.com” into your search box, but you would have to wade through content at all the other pages hosted by The World which are not mine, since all FmH posts are at http://theworld.com/~emg/ and you can’t put a subdomain (i.e. you can’t use “site:theworld.com/~emg”) into Google’s ‘site:’ specifier, only a top-level domain. But, duh, I just realized there is a simple solution. Putting “~emg site:theworld.com”, along with your search phrase, into the box, works fine.

Update: Actually, and I can’t figure out why, you do much better if you use The World’s parent domain, std.com. For example, I get 13 hits if I search in Google for “Iraq ~emg site:theworld.com” but 53 hits if I search for “Iraq ~emg site:std.com”. I get 18 hits on “Bush ~emg site:theworld.com” but 61 for “Bush ~emg site:std.com.” This is even though DNS translation of std.com and theworld.com (and world.std.com) all go to the same IP address. Next question: I’m sure I have referred to Iraq in more than 53 posts here, and Bush more than 61 times (even if you allow for the fact that I usually use an epithet instead of his proper name…). Anyone able to illuminate me on any of this?