Dean Disappears From Google -- Already An Exile At 9 Days Old

After getting up to around #7 on the Google rankings, our little man Dean has disappeared altogether. What's up with that, Google?

No, seriously, what's up with that? Obviously, I don't really care about Dean's PageRank, but it's not like I was comment spamming to get him a high ranking -- I was asking other bloggers to celebrate his birth with a link. And many people did, with full awareness of their actions. Is that not playing by the rules?

UPDATE 7/31: Okay, he's back, as a number of you have pointed out. Weird.

Comments

[Kyle]

It only popped down to #1 according to my search. Still there, just not in the top 10.

[evilcat]

Huh. When I search "dean" it's at the bottom of the first page (as of 9:42 p.m)

[Aunt Joan]

Welcome DEAN..
I don"t know if this will go thru, I've never"blogged" before,
and don"t know what URL is.
Love to you all.

[Tadeusz Szewczyk]

I still see your Dean on #18.
Note that Google has lots (hundreds) of data centers world wide and sometimes they are not perfectly synchronized. That means that you will appear in some and in others not or on a different position.

Besides: Do not confuse PageRank and ranking in the results. PageRank is a number, 0 - 10 that assesses your authority in Google, kind of a thermometer of web site authority, whereas ranking is the actual position in the search results. So your post has shows still a 0 (zero) PageRank but ranks (as in ranking) among the top 20 for dean.

PS.: Congrats to your new family member. Nonetheless look out for all the lunatics out there. Writing about your baby with your real name means that everybody knows where you and your child lives.

[Ellyn]

This doesn't have anything to do with your post but I couldn't find an area for general comments... I'm 17 and I saw a clip of you on the Daily Show about 2 months ago when I was surfing the web. Ever since I've been glancing at shelves to find you book How Everything Bad Is Good For You. Well last week I finally found it and I got it!

I feel proud of myself because it's the first book I've ever owned that wasn't a story-type. Reading your book makes me feel like I'm maturing. I've really enjoyed it so far and I even liked one part so much that I read it to my family and friends!

[Andre]

First of all, congratulations for your third son!!!

I'm from Portugal and recently bought your latest book. Beeing a fan of television, computer games and the new technologies, for years i defended the theory that those are equal and different ways of making "the mind" work.

I enjoyed very much the book and i'm going to contribute a little bit more by buying "Mind wide open". After all, you have another child to support.

Continuation of great work!!!

[Keith Cash]

Congrats on new son.

I ran a search in gooole and I am still finding him near the top

[Brad@NewGate]

well it seems like its still hanging in there (i see it now at #11) but here's a thought from an old-time search guy: if most links are coming from blogs, wouldn't it seem to make sense that they should be "time sensitive"? especially if they all appear in a short period of time. google may be inclined to treat the page as a news event rather than a long-term page...and they'd be right if links began to tail off over the coming days. they may also punish the listing if the vast majority of links come from blogs... this is not necessarily a unique situation, and certainly something they have algorithms to address -- think blog spam.

one thing that may help the rank persist after the original reported drop could be follow-up blogs (like battelle's) picking up the "why did the listing drop" question... will be interesting to see if the listing continues to stick around, or if we see it tail off in the coming days...

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