I was thinking about posting some old papers I wrote in grad school to my blog the other day, but I paused for a moment because I was a bit concerned about plagiarism. I don't really care if someone copies what I wrote, but I do have sympathy for instructors trying to teach students how to write. If their students plagiarized from me, I wanted to make sure instructors would be able to find my original.

I went back and found an old blog post, then tried searching for it from Google: I cut and pasted it into the Google search bar, and I came up with no results. You can search for my blog title and the blog home page will come up in Google, but you can't find individual posts.

So I tried Yahoo -- works fine there; my post game right up. Ditto with MSN search.

Basically this is just a heads' up to instructors, or anyone wanting to search the blogosphere: Google may not be your best bet.