When was the last time you used the search box on your blog? Well, I found myself using mine extensively over the weekend to find my old tutorials and while doing that it occurred to me that I hadn’t used a search box on a blog, any blog, for as long as I could remember.

On the whole I tend to use Google for everything. There’s a few reasons for this. First is that it tends to find stuff pretty quickly and efficiently. Far more efficiently than visiting a site and then using their search box.

The second reason is that the good search box is up there on my browser so even if I am on their blog it is second nature to type into that instead of looking around for their search box.

Despite all this I’m not suggesting that blogs shouldn’t have search boxes, just that Google, Yahoo, and I assume Microsoft ( I couldn’t find their page about it ) offer simple ways to roll your own search engine. If these were made into optional plugins for WordPress, presumably bundled with it, then the search code could be removed from WordPress altogether.

If less is more then this is something to think about.