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HN is indexed in effectively real time as well. I've googled several phrases I've read here, hoping to find more information, where the HN comment of interest is the sole result.
Googled "HN is indexed in effectively real time as well" and your comment is the top result
"1957" china balloon site:twitter.com gives 677 results so that might explain why you don't get the result you want with a general search. without a _site_ filter its going to have to pick only one or two tweets
Some other interesting things I've noticed is counters are often wrong, sometimes even with insane values such as -1. Replies missing from retweet views, missing search results, people have reported that replies sometimes don't work or never appear.
They shouldn't index stuff with a login or pay wall anyway, or should put it in a separate tab of the results or something (that is, other than in countries where they were forced to).
Under the same standards, HN (and many other sites) wouldn't be indexed either.
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Specific tweets, yes, but if you want to scroll a person's profile, you'll need an account after about a page of scrolling.
no, just close that popup? if it even appears... when is the last time you've used twitter
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Twitter indexing was basically real-time - you could see a tweet within a few minutes of it being made Mastodon seems to take many days to appear, if at all. I suspect Google just scrapes the webui occasionally and doesn't use any push-based mechanism for notifications. That probably means it misses some too.
HN is indexed in effectively real time as well. I've googled several phrases I've read here, hoping to find more information, where the HN comment of interest is the sole result.
Some other interesting things I've noticed is counters are often wrong, sometimes even with insane values such as -1. Replies missing from retweet views, missing search results, people have reported that replies sometimes don't work or never appear.
They confirm this can happen on their site: https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/missing-tweets
Makes you wonder if anything security related has glitches like this.
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> counters are often wrong, I heard about "optimistic rendering" -1 does seem bad. Reddit has fluctuating numbers I thought it was to fight bots or maybe using the eventually correct type db.
I would expect it's a database consistency issue across some distributed NoSQL store.
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It’s heavily dependent on the quality of the search offered. For example — Reddit’s search functionality is terrible. I’ve found that Google is much better for searching Reddit.
Google's propensity to return reddit results is a negative to me. Reddit almost never has the information I'm looking for, particularly ever since their website redesign. Even if the search result takes me to a reddit comment section that might have the result, reddit will only show me the top N% of comments in that discussion and then when I scroll down, I see irrelevant top-level posts on reddit about people's cat…
You are describing the fact you don’t like to look at Reddit which is a bit different as OP was just using Reddit as an example for a general concept of using google instead of a site’s internal search functionality.
Incidentally you can solve your issue by typing “ -site:reddit.com” to remove any results coming from Reddit instead of having to scroll past results you don’t want to see.