I was alerted to this little item when I received a Google Notification about the blog that there was a spike in activity on the 6th:
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Of which was primarily from China:
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And yet when I got onto the Google Search console, this greeted me:
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So you can see that Google still refuses/ignores the presence of Parallel Context, while the Chinese web crawlers seem to have found PC. Once again, I've found that Google's search engine isn't really as impressive as they like to think. They can't even blame it on Blogger, which is owned by Google itself, because Bhagpuss' blog Inventory Full is easily found via Google Search:
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This is starting to get to ridiculous levels of incompetence, because there's no apparent reason why the blog doesn't show up in Google's direct search results. After all, PC continues to show up in Microsoft's Bing Search console:
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And in true Microsoft fashion, they want me to pay to "improve" my visibility on search results,
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But I think I'll pass. Just goes to show that Microsoft is leaving no stone unturned in their quest to monetize everything so they can then pump that money into AI (and Satya Nadella's compensation package). But at least their own search engine, Bing, can actually find a 16 year old blog that has almost 1700 posts on it, whereas Google stumbles over itself in the dark, claiming that a Blogger-inserted mobile option "https://parallelcontext.blogspot.com/?m=1" causes a Redirect error...
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| Again, as of 12/8/2025. |
...when you can click the link above and see that the link works perfectly fine in bringing up a mobile-friendly version of the blog. If Google wants to bitch about that, they should talk to their Blogger division. But then again, since Inventory Full is working fine and it's a Blogger blog, I'd say that the problem has less to do with anything Blogger does and more between the chair and keyboard on Google's search division.
At least I know that Google won't enact any retribution on PC, because they'd have to FIND IT FIRST, and they've already proven they can't do that.
WP.com now lets you drill down to the city level, so I know that my biggest US fan base today is apparently in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
ReplyDeleteI had the opposite problem for a while, where Bing refused to index or acknowledge the existence of my site for about 9 months for no known reason. Then something changed their mind and I was back on their friends list.
Google though, getting the cold shoulder from them is tough.
At least I don't count on this for any income, or I'd be in a world of hurt. I'm not exactly shy about being forgotten, but I'd rather it being on my terms rather than impersonal corporations (who, if you'll remember, are supposed to be creating this all-knowing General AI. Kind of hard to be all-knowing if they can't find a damn blog hosted by their own blogging division.)
DeleteOn the bright side, however, I suppose I could get paid in yuan instead of dollars.