To see if HN will eventually outrank the site for that search term.
Indexed, but not yet outranking the site :) EffEyeEnDeeEmEe
Outranking it now.
not for me. EffEyeEnDeeEmEe
Also note that Google doesn't index everything they crawl.
Interesting experiment, but in this form it doesn't give a lot of information. E.g. what if the crawler was at 90% of its crawlspace when the word was added (and the website happened to be in the remaining 10%)? Also, like the author says, N=1.
Or you can just check indexing status on the Google Search Console.
Also, this is a blog post of a 3rd party and not a Google blog post (which is what I expected)
what if someone explicitly request the indexing of the page right after the change, will it take similar time?
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TL;DR: new keyword (fictional word) got indexed in 6 days, after containing page got an inbound link.
Did it need a TL;DR ?! The whole article is only 288 words.