Sunday, October 29, 2006

NJ Assembly debates whether "Rutgers is Wrong" on sports funding

Further to a post on faulty indexing by Google, two IPBiz readers did a blogsearch on IPBiz and each found 5 hits on Sikahema etc., which is five more hits than found by searching google.com. However, if one does a thorough search on IPBiz, one will find 10 posts on the Sikahema matter.

Meanwhile the Rutgers Targum had a discussion of the Rutgers' decision to drop funding for certain sports, which funding drop was part of what Sikahema was talking about in his Vai's View: Rutgers is Wrong.

from the Targum: At a hearing in the Statehouse Annex in Trenton, N.J., Oct. 19, members of the General Assembly's Higher Education Committee heard testimony from both sides of the debate surrounding Rutgers University's decision to downgrade six intercollegiate sports teams to club sports by June of next year. (...)
Faced with a historically deep cut in state funding this year, University officials had to cope with a budget shortfall of $66.1 million. In response to the cut, the University laid off 189 staffers, declined to renew the contracts of 374 part-time lecturers, cut 459 course sections and called off 64 faculty searches this year, said Robert Mulcahy, Director of Intercollegiate Athletics at the University. (...)
Men's heavyweight crew, men's lightweight crew, men's fencing, women's fencing, men's swimming and diving and men's tennis are slated to be phased into club sports by the end of this academic year. According to a statement the University released last week, cutting the sports will save Rutgers $1 million a year.


Of some interest was the text: Funds for athletic scholarships, Mulcahy said, come mostly from student fees. General University funds and donations contribute to funding the scholarships to a smaller degree, he said.

Returning to the Google indexing issue, a search on Oct.29 on the terms

+Sikahema +Rutgers +football +IPBiz

yielded one hit:

IPBiz: Flipping Filippo, Batman, Gunasekera files federal suit ...Of a Rutgers/Ohio U. nexus, the Rutgers football team, after beating Illinois 33-0 on ... Of Vai Sikahema's "Vai's View" on Rutgers, will NBC Channel 10 in ...
ipbiz.blogspot.com/2006/09/flipping-filippo-batman-gunasekera.html - 25k -

Not only does Google searching produce incomplete results, it gives variable results of past events on different days. Google is neither thorough nor consistent.

1 Comments:

Blogger Lawrence B. Ebert said...

A search on Nov. 4 for +Sikahema, etc. produced 8 hits:

produced no hits for IPBiz. Among the IPBiz posts NOT FOUND by Google is that of August 26: Sikahema blasts money for Rutgers football; stem cells next? ...
ipbiz.blogspot.com/ - 91k - Nov 3, 2006 - Cached - Similar pages

IPBiz: NJ Assembly debates whether "Rutgers is Wrong" on sports ...
+Sikahema +Rutgers +football +IPBiz yielded one hit: IPBiz: Flipping Filippo, Batman, Gunasekera files federal suit ...Of a Rutgers/Ohio U. nexus, ...
ipbiz.blogspot.com/2006/10/nj-assembly-debates-whether-rutgers-is.html - 20k - Cached - Similar pages

IPBiz: More on bad indexing by Google
produced no hits for IPBiz. Among the IPBiz posts NOT FOUND by Google is that of August 26: Sikahema blasts money for Rutgers football; stem cells next? ...
ipbiz.blogspot.com/2006/10/more-on-bad-indexing-by-google.html - 19k - Cached - Similar pages

IPBiz: More bad indexing by Google?
+"Vai Sikahema" +Rutgers +football produced no hits for IPBiz. Among the IPBiz posts NOT FOUND by Google is that of August 26.... The post of August 26, ...
ipbiz.blogspot.com/2006/11/more-bad-indexing-by-google.html - 18k - Cached - Similar pages

IPBiz: November 2006
A Google search on +"Vai Sikahema" +Rutgers +football on Nov. 1 produced a hit on kinja.com/user/nip/default/all?p=112531763 - 45k citing to a post on IPBiz ...
ipbiz.blogspot.com/2006_11_01_ipbiz_archive.html - 36k - Cached - Similar pages

ipbiz
[IPBiz: no mention of Hwang Woo Suk, or the implications of Hwang's fraud. ... A Google search on +"Vai Sikahema" +Rutgers +football on Nov. ...
ipbiz.blogspot.com/rss.xml - 44k - Nov 2, 2006 - Cached - Similar pages

nip's default mix - Kinja, the weblog guide
A Google search on +"Vai Sikahema" +Rutgers +football on Nov. 1 produced a hit on kinja.com/user/nip/default/all?p=112531763 - 45k citing to a post on IPBiz ...
kinja.com/user/nip/default/all?p=113488345 - 51k - Nov 2, 2006 - Cached - Similar pages

nip's default mix - Kinja, the weblog guide
A Google search on +"Vai Sikahema" +Rutgers +football on Nov. 1 produced a hit on kinja.com/user/nip/default/all?p=112531763 - 45k citing to a post on IPBiz ...
kinja.com/user/nip/default/all?newer=true&p=113349681 - 51k - Cached - Similar pages

Thus, the results did not include the one hit previously returned. Totally inconsistent results from Google on different days.

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