Today, I uploaded a new version of my firewall configuration tool, pyroman, to Debian unstable.

About 4 hours later I googled for “Pyroman Debian” and was surprised to find the upload notification in the top results. The first hour of this was probably spent with me doing some package function tests (I don’t want to upload broken packages, after all), then the announcement was distributed to the -changes mailing list at Debian, which in turn was picked up by Google Groups.

However that might be due to groups.google.com getting special treatment, though. For this resource, Google can actually trigger an update instead of having to have a spider frequently re-crawl all the contents.

Still I find it pretty impressive to have such new data already in their main index. I was used to this e.g. for blog and news search, but not for regular web search.