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I was thinking... (I do a lot of that, btw)... about how much I rely on Google for looking up information. And yet, how Google hasn't re-indexed the pages I've submitted to it since I moved my site earlier this year, even though a couple of those pages used to get a lot of hits on my old site. Of course, I can't expect those pages to remain popular indefinitely. But still, I was thinking about how, if Google were to choose to specifically filter its results... filter out certain pages or certain topics from its search results, how people like me might never be aware of what we were missing. It could be a kind of subtle censorship.
When using Google, I generally think of myself "searching the whole internet", when really, I'm just searching a part of it - those pages that Google has indexed.
At work today I was doing a Google-search related to a problem we were having, and found a page containing a question regarding the same problem, posted by someone else on my team. That got indexed fast.
When using Google, I generally think of myself "searching the whole internet", when really, I'm just searching a part of it - those pages that Google has indexed.
At work today I was doing a Google-search related to a problem we were having, and found a page containing a question regarding the same problem, posted by someone else on my team. That got indexed fast.