Google sucks
[Editor’s note: To limit the hateful comments and the hate mail, the victim’s name has been elided from this post.]
I was Googling to see if there has been any new information on [a certain] murder case I wrote about involving the young pregnant woman who was shot in the head while riding a motorcycle last Sunday. So I start with the simplest search using the victim’s name. On that search, my friend Trench over at News of Doom is #1.
After clicking through several pages of results, I notice first that only a couple of the entries on the first page had anything to do with story. But then I notice that my site is not included in the fist five pages. That is not a good sign for my PageRank. So I do a little more checking. I do a search for ‘[Victim’s name] shot’, no quotes.
Pretty much the same results. Trench is at the top, then ABC news, then the random combinations of the victims first name and last name begin. Hmm. I’ll try the “[victim’s name] shot”, using the quotes to limit results to only the victim. Only five listings and my site is not among them. Now I’m pissed.
I click on the Google message at the bottom saying some similar sites were left out but by clicking you can see the omitted results. There I am at number three. I was culled by Google. Rastards.
And, by the way, there has been no recent coverage of the investigation into this tragic case, if there even is an investigation.