OGQ = Old Girlfriend Query. Look out, because when Dave thinks this stuff up, the next thing you know he’s actualizing it. Dave says:
Let’s say I used to date a woman named Tammy. From time to time I wonder what’s up with her. So I do a search, and find the same old links. I want to find all the new stuff. I don’t just want to search blogs, so it’s not what Technorati does. I don’t just care if she makes the news, so it isn’t what Google News does. For extra credit, I’d like it to come in RSS format so I can teach my aggregator to do this for me automatically.
BTW, once we get this feature, I predict the same kind of backlash that came when Facebook added rich RSS support. All of a sudden lurkers will have a new advantage, and the lurkees might not be happy about it.
I wish he hadn’t named her Tammy. Or contextualized the idea in the coffin of a dead relationship.
What do you think Dave? Do you really want further to empower cyber-stalkers, and stalkettes?
(If Dave doesn’t build it you know somebody else will. Dave… if you build it, please supply the anti-dote!)
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