# Google experiment **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 15, 2010, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-experiment/557302 "2010-10-15T23:48:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-experiment/557302/1 "2010-10-15T23:48:46Z")
I have a great recipe for sassafras and oregano soup. Must be served in a Wedgwood bowl and eaten at the Royal Ontario Museum. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2010, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-experiment/557302/2 "2010-10-16T00:46:23Z")
Boppity boopity? ---
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2010, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-experiment/557302/3 "2010-10-16T01:25:17Z")
My post was 5:48 CT and by 7:23 CT got the top hit on Google for a search on sassafras and oregano soup. I was checking now and then until about 7:00 CT and it didn’t come up, so sometime in those 23 minutes or so they found it. I was just curious how long it would take Google to find the post. ---
**Author:** ![srzss05](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@srzss05](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/srzss05)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2010, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-experiment/557302/4 "2010-10-16T01:48:21Z")
> [@D18](#): > > My post was 5:48 CT and by 7:23 CT got the top hit on Google for a search on sassafras and oregano soup. I was checking now and then until about 7:00 CT and it didn’t come up, so sometime in those 23 minutes or so they found it. > > I was just curious how long it would take Google to find the post. Your settings are wrong, then. I’m in the CTZ, and it shows you made that post at 6:48PM CT and the above post at 8:25 CT. ---
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2010, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-experiment/557302/5 "2010-10-16T02:05:34Z")
Hmm. You’re right. Here at another computer the time is 1 hour later, as in your post. How is that possible. But the underlying point is the same - between an hour and 10 minutes to an hour and a half for Google to find the post. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2010, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-experiment/557302/6 "2010-10-16T15:55:35Z")
Hot smoke and sassafras and oregano soup. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2010, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-experiment/557302/7 "2010-10-17T00:59:53Z")
Mmmm, sassafras… ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2010, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-experiment/557302/8 "2010-10-17T01:15:45Z")
My post in **Adhay’s** surreal pit thead has not so amazingly become the number one google hit for “cladding rookie infantry swimming pool” ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2010, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-experiment/557302/9 "2010-10-17T01:28:18Z")
And now this thread is number one for “cladding rookie infantry swimming pool”. Edit - less than 13 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2010, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-experiment/557302/10 "2010-10-17T03:02:33Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > And now this thread is number one for “cladding rookie infantry swimming pool”. Unless I use the quotation marks, which makes it the only Google link, I’m showing it at No 2, behind a local outfit called [Pools Land](http://www.poolsland.co.th/). I think here it looks for local websites first. Let’s try: Beating your ferret at 3 O’clock in Tucson. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2010, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-experiment/557302/11 "2010-10-17T03:08:31Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Let’s try: Beating your ferret at 3 O’clock in Tucson. Fast! Just five or six minutes. ---
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2010, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-experiment/557302/12 "2010-10-17T12:21:58Z")
Anyone know enough about Google’s algorithms to say why it took my OP over an hour and 10 minutes but **Siam Sam’s** and **Attack’s** was so much quicker? ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-experiment/557302/13 "2010-10-18T03:10:06Z")
They’re nicer people? 😃 I kid, I kid. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-experiment/557302/14 "2010-10-18T04:15:45Z")
No you’re not! ---
**Author:** ![Tabby\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tabby\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabby_Cat)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-experiment/557302/15 "2010-10-18T04:28:06Z")
I’m guessing Google took longer to spider the OP, but once it’s had the thread in its cache, it can do quick comparisons to make sure it’s up to date and if it isn’t then to update its keyword directory. ---
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-experiment/557302/16 "2010-10-18T10:44:45Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > They’re nicer people? > > 😃 > > I kid, I kid. Well, I’m about 1 SD below the mean in validated measures of niceness, so yes, the odds are in their favour! 😉