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I discovered that my [http://conviviality.ouvaton.org Convivial Tools Encyclopedia] website has already completely disappeared from the Google ratings. This saddening discovery prompted [[RainDog's Second Rant]]. See also [[GoogleMafia]] and [[GING|GING is not Google]]. | I discovered that my [http://conviviality.ouvaton.org Convivial Tools Encyclopedia] website has already completely disappeared from the Google ratings. This saddening discovery prompted [[RainDog's Second Rant]]. See also [[GoogleMafia]] and [[GING|GING is not Google]]. | ||
| − | '''04 October 2007 - Wikipedia article unknown to Google robot''' | + | '''04 October 2007 - Wikipedia article unknown to Google robot'''<br> |
I tried to Google "Sunir Shah" to see if my [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunir_Shah Wikipedia article] about him has started to show up yet. I searched deep into the Google listing but never found it. I finally put together a foolproof combination: "Sunir Shah" with "Early Life." That only brought up two or three pages of Google listings, and the article wasn't there. So it hasn't even been crawled by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlebot Google robot] yet! I put that article on Wikipedia more than two weeks ago. Apparently Google waits to find an external link before it crawls a new Wikipedia article. How long will that take? (Note that there is an external link to the article in this very paragraph.) | I tried to Google "Sunir Shah" to see if my [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunir_Shah Wikipedia article] about him has started to show up yet. I searched deep into the Google listing but never found it. I finally put together a foolproof combination: "Sunir Shah" with "Early Life." That only brought up two or three pages of Google listings, and the article wasn't there. So it hasn't even been crawled by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlebot Google robot] yet! I put that article on Wikipedia more than two weeks ago. Apparently Google waits to find an external link before it crawls a new Wikipedia article. How long will that take? (Note that there is an external link to the article in this very paragraph.) | ||
When I was desperately searching, I tried the combination "Sunir Shah" plus "Wikipedia." Several pages down in the Google listings I found the [http://www.wikirage.com wikirage website], which had put the "Sunir Shah" article on an automatic list of "what's hot on Wikipedia" (so hot that Google missed it entirely). The article was on the list of those that had received the most edits over a short time period.... So I'm a perfectionist.... | When I was desperately searching, I tried the combination "Sunir Shah" plus "Wikipedia." Several pages down in the Google listings I found the [http://www.wikirage.com wikirage website], which had put the "Sunir Shah" article on an automatic list of "what's hot on Wikipedia" (so hot that Google missed it entirely). The article was on the list of those that had received the most edits over a short time period.... So I'm a perfectionist.... | ||
| − | '''04 October 2007 - Wikipedia "Recent changes"''' | + | '''04 October 2007 - Wikipedia "Recent changes"'''<br> |
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I suppose every Wikipedia contributor has tried this at least once: last week when I finished saving an edit, I went straight to "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recentchanges Recent changes]" to see it listed there. In the second it took me to open "Recent changes," some thirty other edits had been made, showing up on the list on top of mine. | I suppose every Wikipedia contributor has tried this at least once: last week when I finished saving an edit, I went straight to "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recentchanges Recent changes]" to see it listed there. In the second it took me to open "Recent changes," some thirty other edits had been made, showing up on the list on top of mine. | ||
| − | '''04 October 2007 - Googling "toolswiki"''' | + | '''04 October 2007 - Googling "toolswiki"'''<br> |
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I Googled "toolswiki" as a way to find this website (the URL includes "toolswiki.ouvaton.org"). There are several varieties. "ToolsWiki" in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_case CamelCase] belongs to a [http://www-theory.lbl.gov physics site], although the wiki itself seems broken. The page called [http://www-theory.lbl.gov/toolswiki/index.php?title=Monte_Carlo_Generators Monte Carlo Generators] on that site is a long list of links to porn sites. This seems to be [[WikiSpam]]. My site is "toolswiki" all in small letters. For "toolswiki" the Google list includes a pointer to the main page of [http://communitywiki.org CommunityWiki]. Not because "toolswiki" is listed anywhere on the CommunityWiki page (it isn't), but because Raindog's Blog '''points to''' CommunityWiki. JUST HOW DOES THIS GOOGLE BUSINESS WORK ANYWAY? | I Googled "toolswiki" as a way to find this website (the URL includes "toolswiki.ouvaton.org"). There are several varieties. "ToolsWiki" in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_case CamelCase] belongs to a [http://www-theory.lbl.gov physics site], although the wiki itself seems broken. The page called [http://www-theory.lbl.gov/toolswiki/index.php?title=Monte_Carlo_Generators Monte Carlo Generators] on that site is a long list of links to porn sites. This seems to be [[WikiSpam]]. My site is "toolswiki" all in small letters. For "toolswiki" the Google list includes a pointer to the main page of [http://communitywiki.org CommunityWiki]. Not because "toolswiki" is listed anywhere on the CommunityWiki page (it isn't), but because Raindog's Blog '''points to''' CommunityWiki. JUST HOW DOES THIS GOOGLE BUSINESS WORK ANYWAY? | ||
