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    Are Gerunds in Topic Titles Problematic in Search Results?

    February 11th, 2008 | 30 Comments »

    I’ve been accustomed to writing topic titles as gerunds (for example, “Configuring the Monitor Display” or “Reformatting Your Hard Drive”), followed by specific steps that would begin, “To configure the monitor display…,” or “To reformat your hard drive….” However, when I watched how an actual person used my online help file, I noticed he didn’t use gerunds in his searches. He typed his search like … more »