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This not only gives your users some useful content, but it can be used in other ways as well. What if you own 5 sites that are all industry specific. Maybe you own a forum about web design, and one about programming, and one about web marketing, and so on. Now you create a webmaster related search that searches across all 5 of your sites. You now have a good chance of getting your users to visit more of your sites than by simply cross-linking to them. I am sure there are lots of creative ways you can use this so put your thinking caps on and see if this is something that will benefit you.
