05.12.08
Another google casualty?
I get a remarkable comment today: on the post Totalitarian google tries to censor history-and-evolution.com, below.
I have always had sneaky suspicions about Google, and the behavior of history-and-evolution.com simply doesn’t make any sense in relation to the known mechanics of Google’s past performance. As noted, Darwiniana seems to obviate whatever was done to H&E.com, if anything.
I am not sure I understand what happened with ERV, so I can only repost the info.
Actually, for other reasons, the hit traffic at H&E has increased, even as the connection to Google searches on key words has drastically decreased. The reason is that the site is becoming better known and attracts a high number of repeat visits from those who know of its existence. The late night term paper crowd, among others, will go through ten or so pages per visit. I can time the semesters as the hits peak in the month before exams, plummet for two weeks after commencement, and then resume at a lower rate for summer school, ….
Darwiniana has an ‘eonic effect’ category, but that seems to have eluded the sneaky ones.
I will take a look at this ERV situation, but I am operating in the dark and don’t know quite what to recommend.
themadlolscientist said,
May 12, 2008 at 4:44 pm ·
“Don’t be evil”? Evil or not, some very odd things have been happening in the Google blogiverse.
The “Endogenous Retrovirus” blog
http://endogenousretrovirus.blogspot.com/
was shut down completely within the last month, for no reason anyone has been able to discover. “ERV” herself didn’t get any warning or explanation for what happened.
There’s been some speculation that it wasn’t Google’s doing, that she may have been hacked by an outsider, but no one knows. Fortunately, she was able to recover just about all the contents and has begun reposting them a few at a time on her new blog:
http://scienceblogs.com/erv/
Her old blog has been resurrected as well, for now at any rate, but she’s no longer posting there. Stay tuned…..
(p.s. When I Googled “eonic effect” today [5/12/08], the first result was this blog’s eonic effect category. At least that’s a fairly direct connection.)