The Mysteries of Google
Can someone explain to me how Google works? A week ago, if I typed in my name in quotes, like so . . .
"chris shadoian"
. . . and ran a search, over 50,000 documents came up. Over the last week, that number's been declining like crazy and is now down to 826. Huh? I don't get it!
I could care less what Google thinks of me -- I'm only concerned with whether people enjoy my comics and keep coming back to read more, and I seriously doubt anyone would be diligent to look as far as document 826, let alone document 32,714 -- but I'm curious about the inner workings.
Oh, and to be clear? I do know the basics of Google's workings. I just don't understand some of the details.
Anyone?
:C
7 Comments:
I'd be more concerned with the fact that you're obviously being systematically removed from the internet. At this rate, the real-life version of you is going to disappear in a puff of 1s and 0s in a matter of days.
So . . . I'm living in the Matrix?
Does that mean I'm Keanu Reeves?
Dude.
I think you mean, Whoa.
Whoa. Wait a sec, dude.
What're you sayin'?
Whoa.
Whoa.
Dude, you must be searching wrong...I found this: Results 1 - 10 of about 9,750 for "Chris Shadoian". Must be rough -- there's only 101 for me!
I'M not searching wrong -- YOU are! THPPPPBBT!
No, seriously. We're both doing it right. It keeps changing like crazy. 50,000, then 800, then 9,000 . . . I really don't get the fluctuation.
Google crawls and indexes the entire internet every [period of time] - so declining numbers are most likely a consequence of the expiration of many websites that cite you. Citations on outdated/expired websites don't show up in searches because the index is constantly updated. :)
- a Google employee
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