This one that is:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18777252&postcount=4108
I knew it was somewhere on this board because I remembered authoring it. And “stout cudgel” is a pretty definitive search phrase. The search site:boards.straightdope.com “stout cudgel” gives two results, neither of them the post linked to above.
For me Google has 4 hits for that search. Your post in this thread, two hits on a thread about the A train, and the post you say Google doesn’t find.
Bing finds all those plus many more posts in other threads with that phrase.
I checked earlier, and the post in the OP wasn’t in the search results for me either. Presumably a passing Google bot has subsequently scanned the OP, followed the link and added that single post to the search index. I’ve no idea why it wasn’t indexed before though.
Here’s another one, which I won’t post because then it WILL show up on Google. Here’s the thread Pure random silliness thread? - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share - Straight Dope Message Board and the very distinct search phrase is in quotes in the first post.
Posting the link to the thread is what got the other one indexed so this one will be too eventually.
I can attest that at this moment the search term isn’t found by google.
If you find another case it would be better to break the link when you post about it so google can’t follow it.
I thought it was because I’d included the search phrase in my first example. Lemme check again…
nope: a Google search of site:boards.straightdope.com <search phrase> isn’t finding my second example yet.
The post comes up for me as hit #2, even without any site restrictions.
When google crawls this thread it should follow any links it finds and index those threads too. But just typing the search phrase in this thread wouldn’t give it any reason to associate it with the other thread unless it had a link to it.
This is strange though. If you search for that URL itself in google instead of searching for a phrase from the thread it finds it and this thread. In those 2 results, this thread has the little green arrow next to it indicating google has a cache of the page. That thread doesn’t. So google has found that page but still hasn’t added any of the contents to their index for some reason.
I still think it might slowly make it’s way into the index now that it has been linked in here (and now that I’ve searched for it several times and clicked the link) but maybe that page is just somehow set not to index by google.
You can find the thread with the same quoted search phrase on Bing and Yahoo but not Google.
Are you searching for the URL itself or the quoted phrase mentioned in the OP? (it’s initials are HYMF… I don’t want to write it out since Lumpy is trying to test a theory but I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t change anything)
I’m searching for the quoted phrase.
Strange. I don’t find it and I’m searching with absolutely no filters. This may be a sign it has now made it’s way into the index but it’s just taking time to go out to all of google’s servers.
Seconded.
I Googled the the phrase again and couldn’t find the post this time. Just a lot of Christmas carols. So who the frak knows how Google works.
Google gives different results to you for a variety of reasons. Their decision to return a result involves at least your search history and your IP address, from what I have heard. I’m not certain exactly why they decided to do this, other than they thought it would help them provide the results you were looking for.
Now, I get weird Google results because I don’t let them run javascript. The linked thread comes up as hit #6 when I restrict the site to the SDMB. The single post comes up as #5, this thread is #1 and #2.
Bolding mine.
IMO you misspelled “send you the most profitable advertising”.
Well, their plan is to lure you to the advertising via search results, but yeah.