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It seems possible these particular articles fell out of Google's index for some other reason than they are not indexing "old" stuff. That's kind of a big leap t
by pbw 9y ago
It seems possible these particular articles fell out of Google's index for some other reason than they are not indexing "old" stuff. That's kind of a big leap to make without many more examples.
- dvfjsdhgfv 9y agoWe may never get to know these reasons. Moreover, from the point of view of the author they might be irrelevant. What matters is that Google is not indexing them, whereas the competition does. (I agree looking for one's own articles is a specific case - in most other situations you'd want to know Google's reasons very badly.)
- jaimehrubiks 9y agoI still agree that it could be any other reason the one that led google de-index that website and therefore not indexing it again. A good review would show more profs than just websites behind the same one domain. Interesting though, let´s see if there´s more news on this.
- mark-r 9y agoQ: What's the difference between amnesia and Alzheimer's? A: I don't remember.
- mark-r 9y agoAnd by that I really mean it doesn't matter why they forgot. The fact that they forgot means there's a sickness.
- fixermark 9y agoI believe the sickness you're thinking of is "distributed data index." Consistency, availability, tolerance: pick two (https://landing.google.com/sre/book/chapters/managing-critical-state.html https://landing.google.com/sre/book/chapters/managing-critic...). If you think about the uptime constraints of www.google.com, you'll possibly conclude that the limits of distributed systems necessitate a solution where some data is transiently unavailable.
- puzzle 9y agoThere's not a single Google index; rather, it spans multiple tiers. Perhaps those pages fell through the cracks, in the figurative sense -- perhaps there is not enough capacity in the tier(s) they are in and the cutoff is too aggressive. There are internal tools to debug this, but of course nobody that has access to them will report here. Uh, five minutes after I first tried, now the review is the first hit for [lou reed "rock n roll animal" tim bray] and a bunch of variations. Enough people searching for it might have changed the state of the system.