Somebody please help with this as I am clueless. I posted that thing about Rattlebag the other day and I needed to find the links to the Arts Council stuff I whinged about so instead of going through the archives I hit Google for ‘corruption arts council’ and nothing popped up, tried adding a few words and I still wasn’t ranked. I then copied and pasted the whole string Corruption in The Arts Council of Ireland and still nothing came up. Seem like I’m not listed in Google for that anymore.

I tried a few other things that I’ve posted and they came up. Again, I have no real idea how any of this works so hold your scorn till the end. I presume if you title a post “Uncle Norbert’s Flapjacks” you’d be ranked first place in Google for “Uncle Norbert’s Flapjacks”. Take one of mine, “Criss Angel: Fucknut” comes first place, ‘kay? Then why the fuck are certain posts not being listed?

This is one thing I want explained and I hope to Sweet Jesus that it’s an easy answer, I’m not in the mood for organising campaigns, petitions and all. A few months ago I read about brand evangelists on FrankP’s blog and coincidentally my Philips mp3 was going through it’s own version of Parkinsons so I decided to blog about how shit the Mp3 player was in the hopes of a rep from Philips picking it up on their RSS thing and helping me, I tried their customer support twice at an average of 20 mins on hold so that wasn’t an option. I also hoped that by listing other disgraceful reviews of it it would people off buying what really is a piece of shit. The post was called:

Philips HDD065 2GB: avoid this piece of shit

Read it here.

My webstats showed me that people were finding it by typing ‘Philips HDD065’ and even though I knew I wasn’t going to get a refund or whatever at least I had I deterred others from getting it, even got a mail short mail from a dude thanking me as he was about to buy one. True Democracy at work and my opinion about the power of blogging rocketed.

Now here’s the crux of the matter, copy and paste Philips HDD065 2GB: avoid this piece of shit or variations thereof into Google and marvel at the ‘no results found’ Why is it gone? It obviously exists so why is it blanked?Please tell me it’s because of a grammatic mistake or a problem with Blogger and not some crazy commercial censorship by Philips.

My plan to kill George Bush is also gone, aswell as my Arts Council stuff. You get results alright, apparently from the LATEST SHIT listing in the bar to your right. I’m more confused than normal about these things. I read this Aprils Fool page by Google before and believed it for a few seconds, it said that robotic pigeons sift through the data to collate the rankings so I’m THAT clueless. A few innocuous posts such as ‘Hayley wants a terrapin’ have also disappeared. Is it a Blogger or hosting problem maybe? Or does your ranking or inclusion expire over time or be affected by the amount of content in your archives?

Can anyone please direct me to info about what is going on?

(the image above is recycled from some right-on Indymedia benefit gig flyer I did a couple of years ago, never thought I’d be using it myself)