Re:Google may rank sites for queries that don't appear on th...
by JoeSmithson on Friday March 22, 2019 @04:13AM
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Wow THANK YOU! I have been asking for an example of this for literally years.
I think possibly what is happening here is that the index believes "azure" is on the page.
Consider the second result here: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22azure%22+%22Allows+adding...
(the one that starts java.dzone.com but leads to the same article).
It appears to have captured at index time a phrase "Microservices and Serverless on Azure" that is no longer in the artcile (possibly a link to another article).
Perhaps a Googler can explain exactly what is happening.
"azure" devops agent "checkout" "freeze"
I'm obviously searching for something very specific here, and Google helpfully decided to show me results omitting "freeze" and "checkout" so I had to quote them.
I also notice that it looks like Google thinks that check-up is the same thing as checkout, which in context are not synonyms, though this would require Google to infer "git checkout" but I didn't include git because that would introduce another universe of unhelpful results.
https://dzone.com/articles/getting-started-with-jenkins-the-... was included which doesn't include "azure" at all, though this is obviously Google being cheeky.
Of course I could also call this somewhat sinister, as Google is basically saying I should ditch a direct competitor to their services and instead use a self-hosted service. Or maybe I'm projecting since I would like to ditch Azure DevOps and use Jenkins, but in any case there's an example.
Feel free to play with it: https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS820US820&biw=1...
Of course, in this case it was a networking problem so I do have to admit that usually when Google starts ignoring what I typed it's because the answer to the question is something else entirely. Though sometimes I know exactly what I'm asking for and Google doesn't get it.