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| DATE | 2017-04-02 |
| FROM | Rick Moen
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout of NYLXS] Is the internet dead
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Quoting Ruben Safir (mrbrklyn-at-panix.com):
> That doesn't prove anything
Demonstrating that a distinctive phrase on my personal pages currently
has high search prominence _doesn't_ prove that 'home pages are in
search results'? You have a very eccentric understanding of the word
'prove' -- and also a convenient one, since I just showed a direct,
objective counterexample to your factually erroneous claim.
> I have run complete sentences from websites through search engines and
> they fail to show up in the top two pages of results.
If you think that will automatically show up in the top two pages of
results irrespective of other factors, then you have no idea how search
engines work.
> They just don't index pages any longer.
Yes, they most certainly do. Provably.
> I've spent a lot of time over the last few weeks tracking down
> discusions on Parameter Space, and other mathematical applicaitons and
> nothing come up but wikipedea, and THERE you can find useful external links.
Not familiar with that application, sorry.
> You can pop who messaged into the search engines and they just don't
> index.
This is so vague, I cannot tell what you're saying, and am not going to
bother to guess.
> This is a big reason why Meetup has pulled in so many people. They get
> listed in the search engines.
No, that's not even in the top three reasons.
http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Essays/meetup.html
> Oyes - I have such trouble looking up things that were at my finger tips
> just 5 years ago.
Search smarter.
> The academeic pages for professors are not given any priority any
> longer.
You know how Page Rank works.
> There have been thousands of important conversations on mailing lists,
> and usenet that have all but vanished from the indexes.
Fortunately, that is not true of mailing lists, or I'd not spend as much
time, care, and energy answering technical questions there.
(I have not checked on the search prominence of Usenet in a long time,
but the Page Rank issue is obvious.)
> The Headless Horseman, which used to rank number 1 wioth the gutenberg
> library entry...
You know how Page Rank works.
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