Four days ago I published the article, “Skynet” to this blog. Up until then, if one ran a Google search using the words, “Hearts of Paradox” this site would show up on the second or third page of search results. Invariably.
I ran such a search today. Nothing.
I pulled up 15 pages of results with no sign of this website. At the bottom of page 15 was the standard:
“In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 146 already displayed.
If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included.”
So I did that and was rewarded with 77 pages this time. Near the end, I found two entries leading to this site. One, (rather strangely) was linked to a graphic (a JPEG) and the other referenced an untitled poem that I began the blog with that includes the line, “The gates the hearts of paradox” from which I had drawn the domain name. That’s all. Only two references, neither of which had a proper title.
The site is still online obviously. So what could have happened? I had not been online at all since uploading the Skynet post. Nor had I made any changes to the site.
Most likely somebody at Google changed a detail in the search engine algorithm. Or perhaps my ISP went down for a spell without my being aware of it. Only the timing makes this notable at all. There are all sorts of explanations that don’t involve a planet-spanning self-aware cybernetic entity expunging all speculation as to it’s existence in order to preserve it’s secret, tyrannical control over it’s human slaves.
Like gremlins, for instance.