Comments on: Life without Google http://mffitzgerald.com/wordpress/?p=207 An occasional journal of ideas and work by Michael Fitzgerald Tue, 19 May 2026 00:05:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Archimedes’ Hot Tub » Blog Archive » What’s So Different about Google? http://mffitzgerald.com/wordpress/?p=207#comment-279414 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:39:55 +0000 http://mffitzgerald.com/wordpress/?p=207#comment-279414 [...] I have found myself baffled, as well, at Jarvis’s assertion that Google listens to people. I have posted about my inability to find my Web site, www.mffitzgerald.com, in Google’s search engine (see Life Without Google). I still have no idea why my Web site went from first listing for a Google search on “Michael Fitzgerald” in March to completely unfindable in its search engine by June (my site in that period remained in first on Live and fell from 2nd to 4th on Yahoo). Something related to me is again the top listing on Google search for Michael Fitzgerald — my biography on BNET, and not my Web page or even this blog page. Also in the top 10 listings is my bio on CIO, another place where I contribute. Granted, there are 216,000 responses when you Google “Michael Fitzgerald,” and I didn’t look at all of them, but once I hit a Twitter post of mine, I figured it was time to quit. [...] […] I have found myself baffled, as well, at Jarvis’s assertion that Google listens to people. I have posted about my inability to find my Web site, www.mffitzgerald.com, in Google’s search engine (see Life Without Google). I still have no idea why my Web site went from first listing for a Google search on “Michael Fitzgerald” in March to completely unfindable in its search engine by June (my site in that period remained in first on Live and fell from 2nd to 4th on Yahoo). Something related to me is again the top listing on Google search for Michael Fitzgerald — my biography on BNET, and not my Web page or even this blog page. Also in the top 10 listings is my bio on CIO, another place where I contribute. Granted, there are 216,000 responses when you Google “Michael Fitzgerald,” and I didn’t look at all of them, but once I hit a Twitter post of mine, I figured it was time to quit. […]

]]> by: Michael http://mffitzgerald.com/wordpress/?p=207#comment-270657 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:30:20 +0000 http://mffitzgerald.com/wordpress/?p=207#comment-270657 Same here -- I didn't see your blog until you posted on my Facebook page. Your blog is excellent, by the way. I spend most of my blogging time on this BNET site, http://blogs.bnet.com/business-books/. I don't know what happened with Google. I just know my site doesn't come up anymore. References to me do. But not the site itself. I went through Google support to ask why, but have not heard anything. I fear I've been put into Google purgator. It's very strange. Same here — I didn’t see your blog until you posted on my Facebook page. Your blog is excellent, by the way. I spend most of my blogging time on this BNET site, http://blogs.bnet.com/business-books/.

I don’t know what happened with Google. I just know my site doesn’t come up anymore. References to me do. But not the site itself. I went through Google support to ask why, but have not heard anything. I fear I’ve been put into Google purgator. It’s very strange.

]]> by: Andreas http://mffitzgerald.com/wordpress/?p=207#comment-270630 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:59:45 +0000 http://mffitzgerald.com/wordpress/?p=207#comment-270630 Hey, I only just realized that you have a blog! (By clicking on your name when you commented on mine.) What on earth was this Google snafu about? Did you find out? How did you get back in? Hey, I only just realized that you have a blog! (By clicking on your name when you commented on mine.)
What on earth was this Google snafu about? Did you find out? How did you get back in?

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