If you’ve been getting my emails for a while you’ll know that I find it amusing and annoying when people say, “He’s/she’s making history.” Every second that’s passed is historical, mostly uninteresting, but historical none-the-less. It is important to record history as accurately as possible from as many sides as possible, but that’s not what is happening. Some groups want to rewrite history to suit their slant. Now I don’t have any objection to them writing their version of historical events, but rewriting it is wrong. It’s just as wrong as there only being one version in the first place, but no single group has all the facts or the only truth. I was going through some old blog posts in the last couple of days and discovered that most of the newspaper articles I linked to no longer exist. People have been using newspapers for as long as there’ve been newspapers to research past events. Removing them from the records is wrong. I suppose that the problem is storage, but there should be a repository somewhere that the original URL redirects to. If it’s not possible to check a reference then no statement can be proved or disproved no matter how one sided that statement could be. I find the loss of those historical documents disturbing. What do you think? Regards, P.S. The Google search gives you the results that they think are relevant to your query. But they go one step further and 90% of marketers have no idea of the power of what they give you. They tell you exactly what you need to do to rank on page 1. They tell you what other people looking for the same type of information also type into the query field. It’s all contained in the People Also Ask section. That’s a blog structure laid out for as many levels as you want to go. You know it’ll rank because Google have told you what keywords to target. Drill down the quick and easy way with this brilliant tool. |