that was then...

I was a blogger before I, or anyone else, I suppose, ever heard of blogging. From June, 1999 until February 2002 I authored the Translator's Site du Jour. Each morning I found websites that were of interest to translators. The problem was that in a post 9/11 world, fewer and fewer such websites appeared. At the same time, broadband came to much of the world and translators became savvier surfers, finding their own fascinating destinations. And I became busier. And, quite simply, it became old.

Searching was my other thang; it still is, though once Google stepped on the scene, well, y'all know what happened. For nostalgia's sake, check out the other search engines that jostled for position way back at the turn of the century.

For a translator, there's more to searching than just entering a keyword or three in google; here are some search tips that can be useful and date back to the old search workshops I used to present back in the days before Google and Google's early years - and the days before broadband, when translators didn't have time (and couldn't afford) to surf around.

So that's what I used to do. But, there's a whole new blogging world out there...