Let's say you are doing a podcast. You are trying to get people to comment about it, bloggers to tell the world about this cool show you are doing. Perhaps it's about your band, The Headless Chickens. You don't seek fame but a little attention would be great.

You know how to search across the web for references and links to your show.

If you have an aggregator, then you can create feeds for Technorati, Google News, etc. You are continually looking at these different feeds, looking for new comments, links, commentary.

Gada.be, the new service introduced today by Chris Pirillo, makes this process quite a bit easier, simplifying your seach across different services and getting the results all in one place. Better, you can search across different sub categories and get the resuts back across the different services.

Now, you can see the value of OPML in a service like Gada.be. Once you get your results, you can import the OPML file into your aggregator. Now, you can track the attention of your band's podcast in one place. Robert Scoble pus it well. What Chris has essentially done is create a mashup from ablout 140 sources.

Gada.be gives us results, lots of resutls with far less searching, And in that way it may emerge into a major reference site, where you can point people to multiple sources, instead of one static web page. I like what the folks at TechCrunch have to say:

It’s likely that Gada will become a much-linked to site for definitive results on a term, in a similar way as wikipedia is today. Gada incorporates all relevant information in a permanent URL, and so becomes a comprehensive result set for a tag link. Gada also outputs search results in RSS and OPML, allowing users to easily subscribe to and organize searches.

The service also makes it easier to search across a mobile device. As Chris states in his blog:

It was borne out of several frustrations. If you've ever tried to visit a Web site over a mobile device, you know it's a pain in the knuckle. The domain had to be simple to key-in from anywhere. gada.be is 4232.2233 on most cell phones and/or PSP. Normally, when you want to find something online, you have to choose a Web site (wait for the page to load) enter the query (wait for the second page to load) then see results from that provider. With "gada.be," you insert the query *AS* the subdomain!

* http://corpse-bride.gada.be/

* http://corpse.bride.gada.be/

Those are two different URLs, each with a different set of results. A dot between two keywords implies a quoted statement, whereas a dash implies the AND operator. Note, too, that you can easily change categories by adding the designated category slug to the end of the entire URL. Too geeky for you? Then you're thinking too hard about it.

The greater implications of Gada.be are to be discovered. I can't access the site right now. Chris is getting a bit of server overload, which I'd say is a good sign.

On a last note,I think that in many ways, bloggers, podcasters, all of us, want attention, a little bit of fame. It makes us feel good.

We all Gada.be famous.