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Google already

15th June 2002

This site has been here for less than four days yet it already shows up as the top result if you search for simon willison on Google—and I never even submitted the URL. In fact, asking Google to list pages that link to me currently turns up zero results. Spooky.

Posted 15th June 2002 at 10:44 am · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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