WORLD WIDE WEB (SBP) — Search engines around the internet were alarmed about data loss this week when queries for \u201cRider Offence\u201d would go through their massive database of materials going back over a decade and return no results. It could not be readily explained why the usually reliable search engines and their advanced technology could not produce a single valid result.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve checked everything from caching issues to rebooting all of our servers,\u201c said a bemused representative from Google, \u201cAnd, there just wasn\u2019t a single result to be found. Usually, we can find anything, however obscure.\u201d<\/p>\n
The non-result is a recent phenomenon that surfaced in all search engines in the past month. Representatives from Bing, Yahoo!, Google and Dog Pile have all tried to explain the phenomenon without coming to a satisfactory conclusion.<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, we swear we saw \u2018Rider Offence\u2019 there a month go. I even saw it quite prominently in the search rankings around the Labour day weekend.\u201d said one IT Personnel from Bing, \u201cIt was even starting to trend rather highly for a couple of weeks after that. Then, for some reason, it vanished.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yahoo! staff also mirrored the same experience.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s almost like someone highlighted \u2018Rider Offence\u2019 and pressed delete.\u201d said a Yahoo! Tech, \u201cWe usually have backup data that can find accidental deletions. But, even our backups don\u2019t show any existence of \u2018Rider Offence\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
Usually, when something on the internet is accidentally deleted, there are fallback plans to retrieve the data. From Google\u2019s caching to the \u201cwayback machine\u201d on archive.org, data is protected from being wiped from existence.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can\u2019t explain it.\u201d said a Dog Pile representative, \u201cIt\u2019s almost like \u2018Rider Offence\u2019 never existed at all. And, I know for sure it was there a month ago! I think I have a screen shot somewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n
The phenomena is not limited to the search term \u2018Rider Offence\u2019, either.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is truly bizarre. I\u2019ve only seen this one other time.\u201d said a Google representative, \u201cWe\u2019ve discovered another internet search comes up with zero results. And, that is \u2018Dwaine Lingenfelter Approval Ratings\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Google tech did assure that the search results for Lingenfelter\u2019s approval ratings were pretty weak to being with. So, it\u2019s not like the world wide web is losing anything worthwhile. Certainly not as big and impactful a loss as \u201cRider Offence\u201d.<\/p>\n
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