AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes

AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes
I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains / Of ragged mountain ranges / Of droughts and flooding rains / I love her far horizons / I love her jewel-sea / Her beauty and her terror / The wide brown land for me / ~ Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968)

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Thursday, December 27, 2007

Lost my Australian identity?


I have just discovered something quite bizarre. I am an Australian blogger, using a .com website admittedly. However, I have found that if I just "Google Australia", I am close to impossible to find. Yet, if I Google the world web, I appear easily on a range of my sites. Surely, with all my Australian tags, I may get some mention on the Australian Google!


e.g. If I Google "Poetry from the Mornington Peninsula", as I have on so many tags, there is absolutely no mention on Google Australia!!! In fact, to find new Australian poetry is very difficult indeed!


Does this mean I am inhibited by .com????


Yes, I agree that the internet is a great leveller of nationality! This is good news! Everyone is equal here! Until now, I believe only death could achieve such a feat! But surely some national connection - especially if you have bursts of promoting your "Australianness" - should warrant a crawler "pick up"????


Or am I just being web naiive????

1 comment:

justcook said...

GOOD QUOTES. LIKE IT. CONTINUE.

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