Searching and metadata

Since the primary purpose of this blog is to note things down of interest that may otherwise be quickly forgotten, I've been giving the idea of searching this blog more thought. This is all assuming I can get the darn search thing to work on here! Anyway the ability to search this blog will be of immense value, I can write things down as they pop up and refer to them easily later.

One of the challenges to searching this blog may be the lack of a structure, despite Google's boasts about its search abilities it may be prudent to include some metadata in each post. At first I thought the title of each post may provide enough data to structure this blog for searching. However things may pop up which I haven't created a unique, meaningful title for either through sheer laziness or its a regular post (things like friday night dining).

At this point I've hit upon the idea of using meta data in the text embedded in an escape sequence at the start of the post. So when I finally get to search the blog, I can search for metadata instead of coming up with an elabourate search string, For example my recent friday night dining post might have the following metadata on the first line:
[1!review][2!restaurant]

Perhaps the extra effort involved won't make it much better than searching it via google but then again most search engines do use metadata if available. This is one topic which will require more practice and tuning, now to get search working on this blog...