# Personal Debt vs. Government Debt **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 4, 2009, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-debt-vs-government-debt/495227 "2009-05-04T00:22:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2009, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-debt-vs-government-debt/495227/21 "2009-05-08T18:41:48Z")
My Google-fu is failing me today, though it would be a lot easier if I didn’t have to wait five minutes between searching. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-debt-vs-government-debt/495227/22 "2009-05-08T19:27:50Z")
Speaking of Google-fu, you may not be aware that you can search the SDMB using Google itself, and not the board’s search engine (and therefore you’re not limited to waiting five minutes between searches). ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2009, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-debt-vs-government-debt/495227/23 "2009-05-08T19:54:58Z")
Huh. When did that happen? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2009, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-debt-vs-government-debt/495227/24 "2009-05-08T20:12:20Z")
A couple of months ago. Jerry announced in some post that he had opened the board to Google’s spider. He did mention that it would take a while before they index everything. But I think all recent content is already indexed. If, for example, you wished to search for all mentions of me on the board, you could go to [Google.com](http://Google.com) and enter “Dewey Finn” site:boards.straightdope.com in the search field. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-debt-vs-government-debt/495227/25 "2009-05-08T20:27:17Z")
FYI, [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10923896&postcount=231) is the post where he announced that he had opened the board to searches by Google. (Personally, I think it’s a very good idea. A lot of people, including me, use Google almost exclusively, so I hope it will increase traffic to the board.) ---
**Author:** ![Mycroft\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Mycroft\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_H)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2009, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-debt-vs-government-debt/495227/26 "2009-05-09T03:51:06Z")
> [@unstrung](#): > > But, (and maybe I’m missing your point) isn’t all that related to government spending, and not personal spending? Bah! You are right. I misread the OP and wrote a response to what I thought it said instead of what it actually said. My sincere apologies. Is there any chance we can get a week-long edit window? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-debt-vs-government-debt/495227.md?page=1)