Imagine my surprise when I once added a reference to a Wikipedia and 20 seconds later googled it to see whether I missed anything—and that WP article was prominent in the hits.
This site uses the google custom search (see sidebar), and it provides a feature for on-demand indexing. I suppose it shares the index it makes with google proper.
I rather immediately decided to see if this had been posted before. Google indexed this comment within 2 minutes.
Imagine my surprise when I once added a reference to a Wikipedia and 20 seconds later googled it to see whether I missed anything—and that WP article was prominent in the hits.
This site uses the google custom search (see sidebar), and it provides a feature for on-demand indexing. I suppose it shares the index it makes with google proper.
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So far, this has been a failure—the test string still isn’t found by google, and the previous post doesn’t even show up in the custom search yet.
Had to stop polling because google now thinks I’m a bot.
I found the posting easily enough by searching “google custom search lesswrong”. Try your experiment again using a shorter string.
Google does seem to love this site! (I wonder if Google has specialised technology in place for handling reddit based sites.)