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Twitter indexing was basically real-time - you could see a tweet within a few minutes of it being made Mastodon seems to take many days to appear, if at all.
by pifm_guy 4y ago
Twitter indexing was basically real-time - you could see a tweet within a few minutes of it being made
Mastodon seems to take many days to appear, if at all. I suspect Google just scrapes the webui occasionally and doesn't use any push-based mechanism for notifications. That probably means it misses some too.
- klyrs 4y agoHN is indexed in effectively real time as well. I've googled several phrases I've read here, hoping to find more information, where the HN comment of interest is the sole result.
- bdcravens 4y agoGoogled "HN is indexed in effectively real time as well" and your comment is the top result
- klyrs 4y agoDelta of 7 minutes. I thought about putting in a nonsense phrase to test the hypothesis, but apparently that wasn't even necessary. Spooky.
- pests 4y agoOdd the same search from my end brings up 0 results.
- basch 4y agoI just had the opposite happen, was looking for a post I know ive found through google before and had to go through bing and then yandex to find it. Google's historical archive of hn appears wonky, or at least did that day.
- fwlr 4y agoThis spooked me the other day. Made a comment about a phenomenon I knew of and the name I knew it by. Got curious whether other people knew it by that name too, googled the name, and the top result was my own comment made just a few minutes ago.