Kinda funny/interesting… As you may remember, yesterday, I was discussing how the main page for the Zen Film, Guns of El Chupacabra has fallen out of Google. I mean, it is totally nonexistent on Google. Like it never existed. Even though there are tons of sites that point to it.
 
Though that strikes me as strange, I won’t rehash it here. What I will mention is that I just came to notice how my webpages devoted to the history of the martial arts are no longer coming up in the search for the subject. Google, still knows they are there. But, I guess, I would have to dive way deep to find them...
 
Once upon a time, in the long ago and the far-far away, if you searched anything about Hapkido and/or Taekwondo the pages on my site would be one of the first referenced on Google. I mean, back then, like today, I have tons of info on the arts.
 
Now, for example, search, The History of Hapkido, The History of Taekwondo, The History of the Korean Martial Arts, or lessor known subjects like the Korean sword art of Kumdo and my stuff is nowhere to be found. What is found, is a lot of people presenting segments of my research, (as I was the actual researcher), but giving me no credit. They also grab stuff from other people, with no actual reference to them.

There is no deep personal research in what they present. Just a book report at best. But, that’s what comes up. Why?
 
In some ways, I guess I could look at all of this as a good thing. I mean, back in the day, if someone didn’t like something I wrote, as truthful as it may be, they would come at me guns blazing and talk all kinds of shit about me on the various sites where such attacks could be posted. But, I am the source. I am the researcher. I was the one who traveled to the source and did the investigation. The research that no one else was doing at the time.
 
I mean, sure, all of the articles I wrote for magazines will be out there, (somewhere), forever. And, my books on Hapkido and Taekwondo are still in print. Promising me a place in the annals of martial art history. But, do a search on Hapkido or Taekwondo history, or the techniques of these arts, and Scott Shaw or scottshaw.com in nowhere to be found.
 
Maybe one of you web experts have an answer to all of this. I do not.
 
In closing, I think this is an ideal example of life. We each live in our moment. We each live it for a time… But, then our moment will be gone. That does not mean that our moment was not lived and experienced. It just means that the all of the everything out there is in a constant state of flux. It is ever-changing. We are here. Then, we are gone.
 
Think about it… What happens when the internet forgets you?