Google this! (@!#$%!?)
Get on Slashdot, and you'll find folks frothing about Google like mindless cult members. But if Google is so amazing, explain this to me: back in December 2004 when I redesigned my blog, I submitted the URL of this blog to both Google and Yahoo. It's now six months later. In this time, Yahoo has crawled my entire site. Presently, I am the #1 result on Yahoo for the query "People vs. Corporations". But on Google, my site appears nowhere for the same query. Why is that? The answer is: because Google hasn't even gotten around yet to crawling my site. I've checked the logs for my site. Google's crawler has merely pinged my robots.txt file, and that's about it. Now let's assume for a moment that my blog is not the work of a madman. Let's assume instead that it provides a new breakthrough analysis explaining the dynamic behind the Green Party's use of the phrase "corporate ... versus ... people" in their press release on Kelo. In that case, Google will have missed this breakthrough, yet Yahoo will have caught it. What's next? Pigs that fly? I dunno. Maybe folks just start getting becoming a bit laid back when their P/E ratio blasts right past 100.
[posted: 06/30/05]
