Why does this happen???
This morning I noted how I couldn't find a post I was sure I had made here using Google Advanced search (wherein I searched the word "tempura" in my blog site - both www.opiniondominion.blogspot.com and www.opiniondominion.blogspot.com.au. I also dropped the "www", in case that made a difference. I tried other words I thought likely in the post too, such as "batter").
Nothing came up. Nothing came up when I tried it last night, too.
Nothing came up trying Bing.
I had to resort to doing a word search in a backup copy of the entire blog (opening the .xml backup file in Notepad.)
And here it is: the post from 2015 - a fairly lengthy post which uses "tempura" many times, even in the title, not to mention "batter".
Having found the post on the backup, I even tested Google Advanced Search by cutting and pasting the short sentence "The history of tempura as a Japanese mainstay is interesting" and told it just to search the blog address - and still nothing.
Why does this happen??
I still see in a site counter I sometimes check, for example, that someone has visited the blog because they searched "lucky snakes", and I had a post of that title many years ago. I can also Google (not even Advanced Google) for "ox tail opinion dominion" or similarly for "paella" and I can get the posts I made where I have recorded recipes.
So why is Google so erratically unreliable about search within a Blogger blog? Even using Advanced Search???
I've been complaining about this for years - and I am puzzled as to why it happens.
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