Is this normal?

[Ben Scott]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 6:44 AM, James A. Kuzdrall <gnhlug at intrel.com> wrote:
>     Question: How did Google get the link?  gnhlug is a public bulletin board,
> but doesn't Google promise not to search email content?

http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/

http://www.mail-archive.com/gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org/

  Note also:

http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/LegalNotice

"Submission of information to this system implies permission to
publish, duplicate, and/or redistribute said information, in
accordance with the terms provided above."

>     Question: Having gotten the link, what motivated them to follow it,
> especially to go beyond the index.html page referenced?

  Web search engines follow links to find other pages.  That's kind of
the whole point of the web.  Indeed, the very name "web" derives from
the interconnections forming a web.  :-)

>     Question: Since the site was searched 2 days ago, why don't I get my site
> as a hit when its unique terms are entered into Google search?

  The crawler, the indexer, and the search are separate entities.  It
can take a while (days, even weeks) for updates to start appearing in
search results.

  From what I've seen, not all things (terms and/or pages) update at
the same rate.  I don't know if it's based on the perceived demand for
the page, or the search terms, or rate of change, or what.  But one
cannot generalize "X took Y amount of time" as typical.

  From what I've seen, the search is not perfect.  Sometimes I've had
a search for "X" not find a page, but then a search for "X and Y"
*does* find a page.

  Also note that Google uses clusters and per-user tuning, so what you
see as search results may not be what others see.

-- Ben