As to what you are tying to do, I assume you want to manually create a tag cloud instead of using the one that comes with WordPress? The proper link format in WordPress is:

<a href="http://example.com/tag/tagname" title="Tag Name">tag name</a> OR <a href="http://example.com/?s=search+term" title="search term">search term</a>

Me, I’d just use the built-in tag cloud.

I’m still confused how you dynamically change all the links on a word cloud or in the wp_tag_cloud function so that the result is the search page.

Or the link from each keyword is something like /index.php?s=”tag” instead of /index.php?tag=”tag”.

It would seem to be easy. Is there something basic I’m missing in this concept?

Thanx!

This is one of the pages where I forgot to remove the submit links graphics. Thanks for reminding me. Let me also remind you that the updated version of this article is at A Technorati Tag Bookmarklet for WordPress and WordPress.com Users.