Google can be intensely annoying (but I love you really!) . I've just added Google SiteSearch and Google AdSense to wow.gedsguides.com; the SiteSearch to double as a poor man's full-text index of the site, so that users don't have to rely on quest titles to find the quests they want, and the AdSense so that one day the site might make me a little money. Guess which one is working?
Correct! AdSense has been delivering targetted ads since about 24 hours after the site went live (with about 300 virtual pages worth of content). And those ads are not only targetted in a general sense towards World of Warcraft™, they also occasionally seem to be picking up on themes specific to a particular page. For example, a page detailing a quest where you have to kill wolves just now gave me five ads themed around the word "wolves".
That means they must have thoroughly indexed the site. But if I go to the SiteSearch box and enter the word "wolves" with the search option restricted to "This Site", I get nothing on the results page. Except a couple more themed ads. If they run true to form, the site won't appear in their results for a month or more. Even though they already have all the data they need.
Grrrrr!!!!!
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