As part of their recent efforts to clean up search results, Google seems to have removed several of my pages and blog posts from their database. Granted, I can understand that I probably shouldn’t be getting hits when people are searching for Relient K‘s song Be My Escape under keywords having to deal with “the beauty of grace,” but I don’t write entries in my blog for them to end as a string of bytes in a MySQL database somewhere in Chicago. I was even more upset to find that I am no longer on the top of Google’s search results for the exact phrase search “Antic Disposition,” among other several other key phrases related to essays I wrote in high school. I wrote this particular essay on Hamlet’s Antic Disposition back in high school and did very well on it. The reason I’ve bothered to put the effort into sticking my essays online is in the hope that someone will find what I have written useful to their own writing, studying, or hobbies. Additionally, I often wove the Gospel into my essays and they served as a medium through God’s Word goes out into the world.

Interestingly, I’m still second in Google’s result set for an AND search on “German Christian Radio,” first for the term BlogSCL2 (and I didn’t even write it), and fifth for an AND search on “computer repair spyware removal flyer.” I suppose if Google had to pick something to remove from their database, that which they selected mattered to me the least.