While responding to a comment to a recent post just now, I wanted to add a link to an earlier item of mine: Can Progressivism Really Be A Kind Of Religion?
I thought the quickest way to find it might be to look it up in Google. I typed in the title, and … nothing. (This is odd, because Google used to give my website fairly high priority in search-result rankings.)
I went to DuckDuckGo, a search engine that doesn’t filter results, and my post was at the top of the list. I went back to Google and put the title in quotes, but my post still didn’t appear.
Have I now run afoul of Google’s heresy-detectors? Have I been added to some Index Librorum Prohibitorum? It seems odd, as I am a relatively obscure site, and pretty tame as far as heresies go. Indeed, one result that did appear was an article at Social Matter linking to my post, and I’d have thought that SM would be a far more visible feature of the reactionary skyline than this humble dwelling, and one that throws a much larger shadow upon the Cathedral’s towering facade.
Maybe this is due, somehow, to my having changed the title of the blog recently (though the URL didn’t change). I wonder.
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For what it’s worth, Bing returns your post at the top of the list, as well.
Thanks, Eric.
Google can’t find it even if you limit your search with site:malcolmpollack.com
Not sure what that means.
I’m not either, but I can’t say I like it.
Happens all the time. And to sites far less subversive. I’ve had difficulty locating even pjmedia articles like this. I now try to use duckduckgo instead of Google as much as possible…though I don’t do as much as I should.