…anytime soon at least.
Searching with Google
So, I’m looking for something I’ve written on my blog. This happens quite frequently – a lot of posts I write are where I’ve figured something out that is useful to me. I write it down in case I need it the information again. Blogs are not generally well indexed so I reach for everyone’s favourite search engine and type…
curiousprogrammer sysread
I’m looking for the post I did on unbuffered reading with perl (back in May it turns out).
And the top link is:
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Read Stream of Input With Perl << A Curious Programmer
14 May 2010 ... A Curious Programmer. Leveraging Perl and Emacs ... Okay, quite cool, but there is a better solution. sysread is unbuffered. ...
curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/read-stream/ - Cached
Bingo!
Let’s try Bing.
Searching With Bing
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Sysread - Blogs, Pictures, and more on WordPress
Blogs about: Sysread ... output irregularly. First it sends "hello ", then waits 5 ... more A Curious Programmer
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Perl Streams - Blogs, Pictures, and more on WordPress
... output irregularly. First it sends "hello ", then waits 5 ...
more A Curious Programmer ... p ... more Tags: Perl Programming, unbuffered input, input stream, sysread
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Okay, not really. It’s only even picking up the links on wordpress.com because I tagged it so well. Maybe it needs a bit more help.
site:curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com sysread
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Why Does it Matter?
My website is pretty small. I get 3000-6000 readers per month, and I doubt that many of them are uniques. I probably have a core of around 200 regular readers. I don’t get a lot of referrals from google. To be honest, I think I’m okay with that – I like the conversation from regulars and I can’t be bothered to moderate a lot of spam or put the effort into getting popular.
But, and it’s a big but, my website has a lot of useful stuff on. And there are tens of thousands of other small ‘unpopular’ sites with lots of useful stuff on. If I’m searching with Bing, what am I missing?
You might say that this only happens because sites like wordpress notify google when there has been an update so it knows to come along and update it’s cache. Well, sucks to be Bing, but in that case it doesn’t even look like the gap is going to close.
I’m going to stick with google.
Have your tried ddg , its written in perl
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Acuriousprogrammer.wordpress.com+sysread
Not sure wordpress notifying Google has anything to do with it: my site is entirely independent of all the blogging platforms and companies and gets any new pages usually indexed within 24 hours.
For my Perl blog you could say that’s being picked up from links in the Ironman stream, but new content elsewhere on the site gets picked up just as quick.
Changes to existing pages can take months to get updated, but new ones… well it’s eerie how fast Google finds stuff.
@kk – Yes, I have used ddg (See YAML is not dead), and I like it.
The first time I did your suggested search it picked up this post, but not the sysread post. Now it gets the sysread post too so that is impressive. I’ll have to see how quickly it picks up my next post.
@Sam – Okay, I *am* surprised that it isn’t related to the notification mechanism. Perhaps your site is popular enough to get a frequent shallow index which would pick up new posts.
Or (possibly a crazy theory here), maybe so many sites are driven by frameworks that notify google that google takes special note of those that don’t notify it and scan them more frequently.