Sacramento Largest List Just Got One Smaller
As discussed in a recent article Googling Sacramento, one of the items on the list of 'Sacramento is the largest' was an embarrasing entry. Sacramento is the largest metropolitan center without a state-of-the-art planetarium and observatory.
All that changed last week with the announcement that construction would begin in the spring of 2007 on the Science and Space Center at the CSUS campus. The building will contain a planetarium. The projected cost has risen recently from $8M to $10M.
Congresswomen Doris Matsui related how her husband, the late Robert Matsui, helped get $1.5M for the project, with $950,000 recently being granted from the California Assembly. A further $400,000 was bequeathed to the project by two former CSUS physics professors - Royal Vanderberg, together with his wife Kirsten, and Chien Yuan Hu.
Sacramento just took a big step up. Congratulations to all who made this happen.
But how do we get an entry changed in Google?
Gillian Parrillo
The Sacramento Executive
Comments
Unless I am misunderstanding you, you won't be able to get the "entry" changed, as Google has done nothing but index the Sac State piece. It is displaying the area found with your search term from that piece on the results page, thus showing "Sacramento is the largest metropolitan center without a state-of-the-art
planetarium and observatory." To illustrate, if you search on the opening line of the Sac State piece: "A significant funding boost of $500,000 for a Space Science Center" you get a significantly different snippet on the Google results page.
The only way you would be able to get Google "to change the entry" is to get CSUS to go back and re-write that paragraph (of a year-old release) and wait for Google to reindex it.
Posted by: Robert McKeown | December 5, 2005 9:31 AM