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http://thinking.bioinformatics.ucla.edu/2011/07/02/open-peer-review-by-a-selected-papers-network/
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Post on G+ created through SelectedPapers.net doesn't appear on site #94

Closed bwebste closed 10 years ago

bwebste commented 10 years ago

Last night, I created a recommendation through the G+ link on the Selected Papers website. 15 hours later, it still hasn't shown up. Generally, I would ascribe this to my own incompetence, but I specifically went through the site to avoid screwing up the syntax. What gives?

Here's the post: https://plus.google.com/109098098298652828653/posts/NjftYHkkXL1

cjlee112 commented 10 years ago

@bwebste You did everything right, it's Google that's screwing up. This is the same old bug in Google+ that we've complained about to Google again and again: Google+'s tag searches (e.g. #spnetwork) simply fail to report many Google+ posts that have the tag. Incredibly frustrating! The workaround is to just go to your user page on selectedpapers.net and click the Get Updates button. This retrieves all your posts from Google+ (and hence bypasses the usual tag search). I just tried that on your user page and it immediately got your new post. This proves that the bug was in Google+'s search results and not selectedpapers.net's indexing code. You can click Get Updates any time you want by going to your page: https://selectedpapers.net/people/51bbcacb71cc136909899d61

Pretty ironic that the search-engine giant Google won't bother to fix such a basic bug in the search-engine for their own site.

cjlee112 commented 10 years ago

your post is now shown on selectedpapers.net, so let's close this as duplicate of #60

bwebste commented 10 years ago

OK, thanks. That is pretty lame....

cjlee112 commented 10 years ago

We're going to do a bunch of things to work around this Google bug so hopefully we automatically find almost all posts without the user having to click Get Updates. FYI details at the end of issue #60