Immediately after I clicked “publish”, I wondered if I could discover more details about getting tickets to the Tim Lambert/ Lord Monckton debate.
I went to google and searched “Tim Lambert Monckton debate sydney 12 February” . My blog post appeared in the search results with an indication that I had posted 50 seconds ago!
Wow.
I refreshed, and my blog appeared as the #1 search result indicating I’d posted a minute earlier. (Not too hard since this is a very detailed search query. )
I wanted to see if the post appeared on a slightly more general search so I stripped off the date. There was “The Blackboard” in spot 6.
When you ping Google, it arrives, reads, and does its magic quickly!
My results are different then yours. Your blog wasn’t the #1 search result on the 1st search. Google has some ‘node’ dependency as far as I can tell. The searches I perform at the office(internet provided by Qwest) return a different result then home(internet provided by Comcast)
Harry-
My blog wasn’t the first result the the first time I ran the search, but was when I refreshed. Let me check now! This time my blog was #3, the first two were Deltoid. (That actually makes sense– but it wasn’t what I got before.)
When you publish on your blog, your blogs RSS news feed is updated. Simultaneously, your blog pings a ping server notifying the world that your blog has been updated.
Google, search engines and others, depending how they classify your blog, use that alert to schedule a new indexing of the latest updates. Frequently updated blogs as well as those considered “authoritative” are often updated within seconds in the search engine indexes.
Basically, this happened so fast because your blog told Google to re-index your site and Google obliged, very quickly.
That’s where you’re wrong. Lightning doesn’t take 50 seconds to go from sky to ground or cloud to cloud! Just kidding. Yeah, that is fast. I wonder if that pinging Google also applies to blogs on wordpress.com.
Lucia,
The heading has got me sompletely flummoxed.
Are you sure you mean ‘lightening’.
Or is Google doing really weird stuff?
Or is this what can happen when one types with lightning speed? 🙂
If we’re being picky – and why not? – it should be:
“Google is lightning-fast”.
The hyphen is required.
Chad–
Your blog probably pings by default. You can over ride that. I just didn’t expect Google’s bot to arrive quite so quickly.
Tony… that, and poor proof reading!
Lucia,
A lightening fast is when you go on a really really strict diet.
JF
Julian Flood,
Lightening is a very good indicator that someone (in the near future) will lose about 5kgs, or so, in a day.
But it only works if you have a womb. 🙂