Half of his visitors were quite regular, He noted. Coming back three to four times each month. Ten percent actually read the entire article, spending up to an hour at a time. Most, Or so it appeared, were more attracted to the shorter, snappier articles and were in and out in moments. Key words, more often than not, phrases, were the key. Search engine experts were finally noticing that searches were becoming, day by day, more refined and the older styles, one or two buzz-words, were quickly losing effectiveness. Besides, certainly here on Gather, people really craved a good story-line. They liked to read.
The wind whistled through the trees as he glanced once more at the stat's by his side. Sometimes it was the latest news on the internet. Little things like Yahoo being wooed by Microsoft, or the fact that only twenty-five percent of the planet was wired to the internet, or wireless, as the case may be. It was rumored that over half of all traffic on the internet was going wireless now. That would explain the preoccupation with smaller articles, The size of the screen often being a significent factor.
Sometimes it was unadulterated fantasy and romance. Just as likely it was the day-to-day drama of real life. These chapters often ran long. If his life was a novel, most would insist it had to be fiction, afterall.
The wind was still whistling through the trees while he continued to study, A large front moving in out of the Northwest. More rain was on the way. The woodlands within which he was situated were well over four hundred years old. Not original growth to be certain, as he just told another writer, but it was directly related, impacted by the primordial forest to be found here when George Washington was but an apprentice surveyor, In this respect quite rare ...
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This is a continuation of a submission to be found elsewhere on Gather.
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