This is a bit OT, (pushed one of my buttons...) Is it just me that
senses this?: that as Google is getting bigger and bigger I'm seeing
it's indexing of any given asset on the net is getting spottier and
spottier. There is one group of minds that is so entralled with this
behmoth they believe it must know every page of every site it crawls, I
can assure this was once the case, but is no longer. In the case of our
sites, three years ago, a search term found *every* instance on our
www.hinduismtoday.com site... but not today... though the archives have
not changed.
Meanwhile some web teams are breaking their heads asking "why is Google
not delivering hits for X number of pages on our site for a given search
term, when it appears that it is crawling our site from top to bottom?"
They take it on themselves, since "Google can do no wrong," so it
must be something that "we have to fix on our site."... Web admins are
now Google serfs. Again -- as with cross platform browser coding, --
putting manhours into feeding yet another glittering web techno beast
instead of building meaningful content... Meanwhile my gut feeling is:
Google clearly will always keep the carrot just a bit ahead of the
donkey--no matter what you do, their index of your site will not be 100%
complete-perfect.
Can anyone confirm this perception? I would love to be proved wrong: it
goes to strategy, a) depend on a Google search link on your site, for
your own site, b) set up you own search engine (HT DIG). c) pay Google
the big bucks to index your site completely.
OK this is now *way* OT... if you have thoughts or hard information on
this area... email me off list.
Sivakatirswami
Bernard Devlin wrote:
Mostly, I don't ask for help on this list because I have found that
searching the archive via Google usually brings an answer (that and the
great documentation esp. in earlier versions of Rev - trust me, after
struggling with Applescript last week, I really, really appreciate both
xTalk and the Rev docs more).
Anyway, I've noticed recently that a) Google searches of the list seem
to be bringing up useful results less and less often. Maybe my needs
are changing, but in any case there is definitely something wrong with
the Google results. Clicking on a returned result takes one to an entry
in the list, but it is the wrong entry. Clicking on Google's cached
copy of that page takes one to the right page.
I don't know if the problem is Google's or Runrev's. But I just thought
I'd bring it up, in case anyone else has noticed anything strange.
Bernard Devlin
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