If I'm searching for something that I know exists and I cant find it there is no excuse. The search provider failed to do its job.
There is not but the webmaster should have done this and that. He was hit by a bus 10 years ago and we should be happy the content is still available.
A good search provider would link a vanished website to archive org if the content is exactly what the customer wanted.
Long long ago when posting interesting links in comments didn't trigger commercial hysteria people would cite bits of texts and have a link to the full text. Later this became simply citing a chunk of text. I use to drop a few lines from the citation into the search engine and find the original work.
the end user searching for the content
the webmaster or author of the content
the search provider
If I'm searching for something that I know exists and I cant find it there is no excuse. The search provider failed to do its job.
There is not but the webmaster should have done this and that. He was hit by a bus 10 years ago and we should be happy the content is still available.
A good search provider would link a vanished website to archive org if the content is exactly what the customer wanted.
Long long ago when posting interesting links in comments didn't trigger commercial hysteria people would cite bits of texts and have a link to the full text. Later this became simply citing a chunk of text. I use to drop a few lines from the citation into the search engine and find the original work.
Just look!
https://www.google.com/search?q=Looks+like+only+page+6+is+in....
As i'm writing this there are exactly 45 search results above the one that should have been displayed.
There is no excuse like HN not ranking enough, they didn't not index the page, the other results didn't match the query better.
If we do this with 4 exact lines from a less popular site it will end up some place on page 20 of the search results.
Another example, I really don't care for indexing but here is an article that I always (jokingly) refer to as my greatest work.
The exact title:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22the+wrath+of+the+book%22
A really weird result. Safe to say nothing matching is there.
The first many words from the text:
https://www.google.com/search?q=I+think+someone+%28you%29+sh...
It doesn't find it.
Then we check if it is even indexed...
https://www.google.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.go-here.nl...
And there it is! Why does it even crawl the page?
It also lists websites that have the number 8616 on them and ones with both the word "blog" and "here" in the text.
I'm not suppose to laugh?