Ironic Circular Thinking in a Slightly Round World
Brett_Tabke
8:04 pm on Feb 15, 2011 (gmt 0)
Did three G searches on unrelated perl code questions. Ended up back on webmasterworld 3 times off the serps. Two of those times, I'd asked the original question in the thread.
incrediBILL
11:13 pm on Feb 15, 2011 (gmt 0)
If you asked the original question, was it answered on WebmasterWorld in the first place?
I'm just trying to assess if this is a SE issue or early onset of senile dementia ;)
Don't feel bad, I've actually caught myself looking for spider info on the web and it turned out the source was my own blog with a lengthy description - OOOPS!
Demaestro
11:37 pm on Feb 15, 2011 (gmt 0)
Sounds like you have come full circle!
Brett_Tabke
11:40 pm on Feb 15, 2011 (gmt 0)
Just intense irony Bill - just irony. I was doing a search on no cache headers and I'd asked a similar question several years ago.
SevenCubed
11:46 pm on Feb 15, 2011 (gmt 0)
I guess the SERP was cached
icedowl
12:17 am on Feb 16, 2011 (gmt 0)
That's enough to make one's head spin!
SevenCubed
12:28 am on Feb 16, 2011 (gmt 0)
Of course Brett doesn't use G for searches so none of this really happened. But actually it did, in fact he knew the answer before he asked the question -- it's a circular bending light thingy. Oh yeah, I forgot there are no circles either, only pyramids, reflections, torque, and bending light. The egg came first, it was inside an apple of course.
Be alert incrediBill!
wheel
12:36 am on Feb 16, 2011 (gmt 0)
perl? Isn't that like the 1990's version of php?
jecasc
8:42 am on Feb 16, 2011 (gmt 0)
Happened to me only recently. I posted a question on webmasterworld. A few minutes later I tried a last attempt to find an answer on Google. And I was delighted to apparently find a result in the SERPS that exactly matched my problem. So I clicked on it and was back on webmasterworld, in the thread I had started a few minutes ago.
koan
8:45 am on Feb 16, 2011 (gmt 0)
It happened to me a few times, I search for something, find an interesting result that seemed to clearly answer my question, clicked on it and ended up on one of my sites. I didn't know if I should have been proud or ashamed.
HuskyPup
3:09 pm on Feb 16, 2011 (gmt 0)
Thank heavens I'm not the only one who does this!
wheel
3:34 pm on Feb 16, 2011 (gmt 0)
Yes, I've done this as well. First, it's exciting - you google the search term and find and exact match! Then it's disappointing because you're looking at your own post.
rocknbil
6:15 pm on Feb 16, 2011 (gmt 0)
Two of those times, I'd asked the original question in the thread.
AHHH . . . . I hate it when that happens, and have had the exact same thing happen, and right here. <facepalm x 10>
When I tell people I've forgotten more than many people will ever know, they don't know I'm dead serious.
