Twitter indexing was basically real-time - you could see a tweet within a few minutes of it being made

Mastodon seems to take many days to appear, if at all. I suspect Google just scrapes the webui occasionally and doesn't use any push-based mechanism for notifications. That probably means it misses some too.

HN is indexed in effectively real time as well. I've googled several phrases I've read here, hoping to find more information, where the HN comment of interest is the sole result.

Googled "HN is indexed in effectively real time as well" and your comment is the top result

I just had the opposite happen, was looking for a post I know ive found through google before and had to go through bing and then yandex to find it. Google's historical archive of hn appears wonky, or at least did that day.

Delta of 7 minutes. I thought about putting in a nonsense phrase to test the hypothesis, but apparently that wasn't even necessary. Spooky.

Odd the same search from my end brings up 0 results.

This spooked me the other day. Made a comment about a phenomenon I knew of and the name I knew it by. Got curious whether other people knew it by that name too, googled the name, and the top result was my own comment made just a few minutes ago.

Any server recommended for general purpose quiet lurkers?