just a blog of my ramblings. really an on-line journal.
Monday, December 20, 2004
Well in the ongoing saga w/ Google, now my page isn't coming up at all. This is total suckiness, and I'm really perplexed as to what the reason is. After about 3 days, the new site was coming up as the 2nd result when you googled my name (the old site was still the number 1 search result, even though it no longer existed). I had no reason to think matters would do anything but improve. Yet, now my site is like, totally invisible to Google. What's the deal? I seriously don't get it. there must've been something magic about being hosted in a .edu domain or something.
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
Google is so much more than a search engine. It's like an on-line concierge service. With their plan to digitize huge portions of several libraries and make it available and searchable online, Google is once again making a reality something that I (and likely a lot of people) have long wished for. Just the other day I remarked to a friend in an email about how I had once wished Google had a dictionary feature, and upon closer inspection, discovered that they already had it.
With all the good things they keep doing, I can't help but wonder where and when we'll discover Google's dark side. Will it be found in the insidious text-based ads, that sometimes appear in inappropriate ways? Does it lurk behind the conspiracy-theorists' fear that gmail can never be deleted? Or is it in my coworker's theory that one day Micro$oft will buy out Google and nothing will seem clean and pure anymore?
On a more personal level, I am waiting to see how long Google will take to find my new web page. I recently migrated the page to new servers, and to my dismay, my old hosting service (through the university where I went to college) has removed the forwarding page I had put in place, despite the fact that I'm still paying for this month's service. Currently google still finds the old page, which of course, no longer exists. I'm intrigued to see how long it will take for the page to attain to its former position as the primary result from googling my name. I can only assume that, because it has all the same material as the first site, it will eventually reclaim its former grandeur, when Google's spiders finally find it.
With all the good things they keep doing, I can't help but wonder where and when we'll discover Google's dark side. Will it be found in the insidious text-based ads, that sometimes appear in inappropriate ways? Does it lurk behind the conspiracy-theorists' fear that gmail can never be deleted? Or is it in my coworker's theory that one day Micro$oft will buy out Google and nothing will seem clean and pure anymore?
On a more personal level, I am waiting to see how long Google will take to find my new web page. I recently migrated the page to new servers, and to my dismay, my old hosting service (through the university where I went to college) has removed the forwarding page I had put in place, despite the fact that I'm still paying for this month's service. Currently google still finds the old page, which of course, no longer exists. I'm intrigued to see how long it will take for the page to attain to its former position as the primary result from googling my name. I can only assume that, because it has all the same material as the first site, it will eventually reclaim its former grandeur, when Google's spiders finally find it.
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