{"id":609,"date":"2007-08-10T01:15:38","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T06:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/10\/googles-index-is-broken"},"modified":"2007-08-10T01:15:42","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T06:15:42","slug":"googles-index-is-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/10\/googles-index-is-broken","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s index is broken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was just listening to an episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/gdayworld.thepodcastnetwork.com\/\">G&#8217;Day World<\/a>, and Cam was mentioning that he owned Australian culture (Google g&#8217;day and his podcast ranks #5 or #6). So I thought I&#8217;d Google myself.<\/p>\n<p>I hit up google.com, entered Colin Charles, and to my dismay, my blog ranks number 3 in the list. Its preceded by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Colin Charles Award Winning Wedding and Portrait Photography &#8211; it has the domain colincharles.co.uk and has a PageRank of 1<\/li>\n<li>Music Books, Charles Colin Publ Brass &amp; Jazz Methods&#8230; &#8211; it has the domain charlescolin.com and has a PageRank of 3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And then my blog, which has a PageRank of 6. The above two websites have got the strings colin and charles highlighted in the URL, of course. So am I to understand that if I wasn&#8217;t bytebot.net and had my name in my domain name, I&#8217;d rank higher? Or is Google&#8217;s index just broken?<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/web\" rel=\"tag\">web<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/google\" rel=\"tag\">google<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/search\" rel=\"tag\">search<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/index\" rel=\"tag\">index<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/pagerank\" rel=\"tag\">pagerank<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/domain\" rel=\"tag\">domain<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/name\" rel=\"tag\">name<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Google%27s%20index%20is%20broken&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2007%2F08%2F10%2Fgoogles-index-is-broken&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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