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Tuesday: November 11, 2008How Alert Is Google?Filed under: — site admin @ 12:40 AM GMT-0500
Belatedly wondering if anyone else had quoted Kenko’s proto-blogger manifesto, I did a Google search on “Kenko + blogger + Idleness + flatulence”. The first result of “about 93” was my own 11:57pm post, dated (timed?) “9 minutes ago”, which means that Google had it in their database approximately 25 minutes after I posted it. I would be less impressed if I had even 0.1% of (e.g.) InstaPundit‘s traffic. 1 Comment »RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI Leave a comment |
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[…] in the spring of 1996, so long ago in Web terms that my available space was measured in trilobytes. Things happen much faster today, notes Dr. Weevil: Belatedly wondering if anyone else had quoted Kenko’s proto-blogger manifesto, I did a Google […]
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