I used to know so much more about blogging and the world surrounding it. I used to be able to look at things like the screenshot below and know what was going on.
Now I ask myself if this is just the Google data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa rolling through my site or if someone is scraping my content for their own use.
I used to see more of that happening than I see today but I can’t say if it changed because of the world or because of what I have been doing.
There were moments when I caught people doing it and I would drop in little “poison pills” in the content to see if they were reading.
Things like “you’re reading stolen content and if you want to support the real writer do this and XYZ.”
It worked a few times, maybe more than a few, I don’t remember. Been a long while since I remember any of that going on, might be more than 10 years.
Time keeps moving and priorities change, I am obviously still writing but not like I once did so I ask myself if there is motivation to figure out what is happening here.
And if not, well should that be a sign or is the sign that I am posting about this. Does that mean the curiosity is driving me for more details.
Does that mean the flame still flickers?
Maybe.
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