Friday, June 18, 2021

Changing the Algorithm

 I needed to go to Sipsey Street earlier today to check on something and experienced something I never have before: Searching for it on Google produces plenty of hits about it, but I'm not seeing a link to it, at least on the first page of hits.  Just a few days ago, the very first link that would come up would be the one that goes to the blog.

UPDATE: I guess I didn't make myself clear.  A link to SSI still exists, it's just that anyone searching for it on Google won't see it come up, at least on the first page of returns.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Link to Sipsey Street: https://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/
It worked 1 minute ago.

Henry said...

How droll. The archival version of it (at Brown) in the second hit, but the live website is nowhere to be found on the first page.
Mike's been forcibly de-ranked.
Well, David, you certainly can't claim you are surprised by this, and neither can I.

Steve said...

If I click your search link in Chrome, where I'm signed in, Mike's site is the top result, with the Southern P you know what being the second. I get the same results in Brave, where I'm not signed in.

Steve said...

I'll add that I was on my phone. Results could be different on a PC.