by RJN » Thu Oct 17, 2013 1:28 pm
It might be interesting to note how NASA APOD web site comes back into the Google rankings, assuming it does, since it has become active again today as the 2013 US government shutdown has ended. Before the shutdown, the NASA APOD was near the top of the Google listings of the words "Astronomy", "Picture", "Day" and "of the Day". I wish I had screen shots, but I don't. Now, however, the NASA APOD has fallen out of the top listings for these topics.
Now I realize that in the past few years, Google also incorporates local information into search rankings. That is why it is best to search on a browser with no history, or alternatively "incognito" in the Chrome browser and similar private setting in other browsers -- then it seems that search history is not taken into account.
Currently, at the time of this post, the NASA APOD is not among any Google search listings that I can find for "Astronomy", "Picture", "Day" or "of the Day". It is completely absent from the top page for all of these. Surely there are other web search "experiments by accident" because of the US government shutdown and its return, but this is one that I, for one, find interesting.
- RJN
It might be interesting to note how NASA APOD web site comes back into the Google rankings, assuming it does, since it has become active again today as the 2013 US government shutdown has ended. Before the shutdown, the NASA APOD was near the top of the Google listings of the words "Astronomy", "Picture", "Day" and "of the Day". I wish I had screen shots, but I don't. Now, however, the NASA APOD has fallen out of the top listings for these topics.
Now I realize that in the past few years, Google also incorporates local information into search rankings. That is why it is best to search on a browser with no history, or alternatively "incognito" in the Chrome browser and similar private setting in other browsers -- then it seems that search history is not taken into account.
Currently, at the time of this post, the NASA APOD is not among any Google search listings that I can find for "Astronomy", "Picture", "Day" or "of the Day". It is completely absent from the top page for all of these. Surely there are other web search "experiments by accident" because of the US government shutdown and its return, but this is one that I, for one, find interesting.
- RJN