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A "Search Journal" would be a thing like SocialBookmarking, but with the context of your particular search (by the BerryPickingModelOfInformationRetrieval.)

What happens is this:

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Things are not so simple such that a simple "progressive hierarchy of search" will necessarily fit. We may find that some other approach, that we weren't searching for, suddenly turns out to be what we needed. The search may be abandoned, in response to TheTimes?. In order to get out of ChangeFailure, this would probably need to be a log rather than some sort of structured thing. That said, there are structured elements to the process of searching, and perhaps it would be useful to semi-structure things: allow for some convenient expression of structure.

It would be neat if something could make it so that other people could help tap you on the shoulder and point you in the right direction. A ConnectionPoint, or something more structured like the ability to attach messages to search points, whatever.

Something.

Just the idea is: It may be very useful to get this information, log it, cross-reference it, etc., etc.,.

I can imagine: "Show me the search journals of other people who used this page."

If you wrote a page, you could see: "Why are people here at this page? Just what are they looking for, when google happens to redirect them here? What questions am I not answering for people?"

This could be very valuable stuff. See also the "attention" work that people are doing, which is basically trails across the web.

It'd be neat, too, for when you're going for help. You could say: "Here's the work I've been doing." That said, when you ask for help, there tends to be a database of stuff people want to know from you. "What's your OS. What's your this. What's your that. Which version are you running." Yadda yadda yadda. And they don't want to be told: "Ping my server, check it out." Similarly, they might be mad if you say: "Just look at my SearchJournal."

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