Interesting.
I'd wondered why I was getting so many hits for searches on Hinton Battle, given the site name has changed several times since then. Google still brings up the July 5th version of the front page, with that name, in their index.
As they'd been updating the site daily for a while, this seems odd.
Think I know why.
Do a search for Patricia Meili. The interesting result is the one from The Black World Today, which notes that that's the name of the jogger in the 1989 Central Park. . .
Wait, sorry, you're not meant to know that. Not until the press blitz for her upcoming book, anyway.
A Richard Roeper article in the Sun-Times, which has received some minor discussion, discusses the media's ID policy towards rape victims. He doesn't mention this case, of course.
I made the mistake of linking the article and dropping the name back in June, and Google's indexing got slightly wacky just after that.
Perhaps this is coincidence. Don't especially feel like contacting Google and her publishing company to find out.
They're still doing better than AltaVista and MSN Search, which bring up no results at all for the name in quotes. . .
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