Post by @mavnn@bonfire.mavnn.eu

Me, to Google: I'm moving my blog from blog.mavnn.co.uk to blog.mavnn.eu. I've set up redirects and everything. Now I'm submitting a report to tell you.

Google: Okay!

Me, next day: Google, why have unindexed all my mavnn.eu sites, even the unrelated ones?

Google: We've crawled those pages but haven't indexed them yet.

Me: They were already indexed?

0 Boosts

0 Likes

Michael Newton

@mavnn 7 mo. ago

Google: Would you like to see the crawled version?

Me: ...okay?

Google: Ha! The page hasn't been retrieved.

Me: The one you just told me was crawled?

Google: Maybe you need to wait a bit?

Me: ...so, telling you my website has moved means you notice more slowly than if I don't tell you?

Google: Pretty much! Thanks for telling us!

Michael Newton

@mavnn 7 mo. ago

Me: You do realise that even Bing have started indexing the new domain, and I didn't even tell them?

Google: We have a button here that does nothing you can click, and we'll tell you your page is in a priority queue!

Me: Okay, so we're really doubling down on the epitaph "Woke up and chose to be worse than Bing". Good to know.