Squidblog

We’re all in a hurry when we’re surfing the web. We’re looking for something, an answer to a question (”is gorilla hair ground covering toxic to my dog?”) or better yet, meaning. Usually you have to put in a little time to snap right to what you want. Search, poke, back, hunt, look, back again, and on and on. Or if you’re like me you have no fewer than 89 tabs open in Firefox when you’re on a research mission.

In an attempt to help searchers get where they ultimately want to go, a little faster, we’re trying a new series of ‘greetboxes’ on Squidoo. The first series of greetbox experiments will only be visible to searchers (as in, people Googling or Yahooing or Binging). And only if you, the lensmaster, have selected to keep the ‘Discovery Tool‘ on your lens turned on. If so, the searcher will see the greetbox at the top of a lens, spotlighting good lenses related to her search. She can easily dismiss it if she’s already happy with where she’s landed. (The challenge to you is to make the latter part of that sentence true).

Here’s a static example.

So if you haven’t already, try turning the Discovery Tool on and give the searcher greetbox a shot. It’s a good traffic play. Because once your lens is participating, that means other participating lenses will also point back to yours from their greetboxes.

We’ll run a few slightly different versions of these boxes over the next few days to see what works best. Maybe together we can convince some of the searchers who fly by in a hurry to stop and smell some roses.