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October 13, 2005
Potato, potatoe
Looks like Bob has gotten himself into a bit a of a sticky situation with regards to his blog. Not exactly the normal type of event I'm used to hearing about from Bob, but an interesting fight none the less for reasons of personal liberties.
The interesting bits to me are really the pieces behind the scenes. It seems the plaintiff in this situation has a notion of how computers work, or at least can get on the Internet to conduct a search. Unfortunately there seems to be no understanding of the technologies being employed, which only aggravates the situation. While no one outside of the Googleplex really understands exactly how Google's search algorithms work, there is generally a vague public idea and consensus on the basic behavior.
First, the
Second, crawlers. Googlebot currently visits my site about once a week. On pages that have a higher update frequency, Googlebot's arrival reflects this as well. It stands to reason that Google employs some type of LRU algorithm on pages, as it does not consistently request upon each visit every page from my site. Even if the index were updated, and changes were made by the defendant in this case, it's very possible that a Google search will still respond with the erroneous results. That is until the LRU reaches an update point and has Googlebot request every single page again. Bob seems to be pushing his luck a little bit with his responses. Anyone have some good advice or help to offer? Posted by Dan at October 13, 2005 02:08 AMComments
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