So I went to use it again today and tried to tap into the drop-down history method so I wouldn't have to re-type my keywords - keyboard shortcuts are not a default no-no - and poof! This message came up.
Geez!!! My data was already pushed to 3rd party receivers the moment I clicked send, but the suggestion their actions of removing my search from their hardware somehow is the best method for a search engine to protect my privacy is one of these sticky buns that once again made my eyebrow rise, but I didn't start this entry to yap about Yippy as an end-user.
I live in a world surrounded by people who have no hesitation or reservation leaving actual citations or reference points to their statements speaking towards "I saw on the Net the other day". This certainly includes me, for I am certainly not an exception to this particular Occam's Razor application of reality being in existence through presence of evidence in a virtual setting. No matter what the intent, content presented is content presented.
So here I am romping around this previously foreign search engine, looking for signals of content perhaps being that of assumed news media caliber, when I fall upon this:
Most would not blink twice at this particular entry, but I happen to know from a project years ago that Charter Barclay Hospital as it is recorded and remembered at the address of 4700 N. Clarendon Ave. ceased to exist well over a decade ago and that my awareness of the original building being torn down a while ago comes from actually visiting the address to see for myself what actually was going on at this particular street address.
So if there is no Charter Barclay Hospital located at 4700 N Clarendon and the hospital has not had a physical presence at this address for well over a decade, who got the hot idea to include the location in their online storefront as an entity able to deliver flowers to a building that just does not exist.
With slim pickings on how to discern how this particular entry ever made it into the general population, their half-way effort to suggest the sources of credibility that went into such a result being presented actually helps a little. This is where my eyebrow went back down when I didn't see a Google tag as the feeder system to the Yippy brand. Whatever. If leaving out Google helps an engine better serve a searcher...
It is with the Bing brand that provides the potential for mass distribution to elevate this root directory to some measure of back-and-forth validation metrics and mathematics worthy of entry into the Yippy brand. Directory structures can be brought together in a matter of moments and mini-indexes can play roles in aiding the direction of traffic irrelevant of a purchase of any type or kind.
So it isn't surprising there might be a now-irrelevant identity getting a momentary burst of credibility, but it is the time side of life that made this particular entry a little more curious than how I tend to view these events, a breezy and cynical dismissal of the address by simply not paying any attention to how it even showed up online to begin with.
And yet, despite my current example showing an attachment to the data being presented that provides potential for reasonable doubt there is no Charter Barclay Hospital located at 4700 North Clarendon Ave., what of the entries that are proffered to be reflective of something other than a building once classified as a hospital which validates a right for the floral industry to draw the attention of those who may be seeking to purchase flowers online?
Again, the fact that the root directory ranked at all stems from what percentage of the database is receiving what click action, etc. and subsequently receiving global credibility for all of their entries, including the one I snapshot.
There have been many story-lines being driven in the direction of what is "permitted" in an online setting, with the rock 'n roll revolution paling in comparison to the flood of overall contributions to the music community, let alone the gravity of discerning what constitutes a posting of information that "clearly" endangers the well-being of another all the way to a government owned and operated website listing for months its President as the person who had been voted out of office under a cloud of doubt and distrust over just what kind of a legacy he left in his wake, including a website that was severely outdated to begin with.
Back to my search for explanation as to who exactly picked up on a hospital location that had been closed for well over a decade. Here is the footer to the site:
Other than this layout slight, the copyright markings suggest this is a database that has been around for well over a decade. The date of closure for Charter Barclay Hospital was in 1996 and this site claims it started in 1999. In knowing that these types of databases have to draw upon some data source, it certainly can take a few years for the telecommunication providers to clean up their indexes, but this date spread suggests the potential for laziness when it comes to what a consumer should be able to reasonably expect from an online storefront seeking enough credibility to motivate a financial transaction of some form...even if it is a payout somehow connected to the act of simple clicking.
This particular time stamp suggests that either the phone companies have yet to update their indexes with the information that Charter Barclay Hospital does not exist at 4700 N. Clarendon and that the number being associated online is an active fax number. Because there is some form of response from the phone number listed, (i.e. a fax tone), one can possibly conclude there must be a telephone number for the main offices somewhere and that such a phone number is somehow intentionally being kept a secret.
That's enough for an active imagination such as myself to at least try the phone number on the site to help them update their index so its a little more accurate. Turns out they have office hours and no recorder attached to their voice system, but they did suggest I send them an email. I know I can call back during regular business hours but it is of curiosity they don't mention office hours anywhere around the phone number published at the top of the page.
One more quick note about the footer, many have vented about how easy it is to simply copy/paste a logo into a web page for credibility purposes. Therefore, I typically won't give much weight to a graphic showing up, such as the FTD symbol, let alone the text-based GoDaddy reference.
So what does the actual presentation display as their online offering?
The template system they implemented deploys what seems to be a database draw based on the location provided by the searcher along with a set of suggested floral arrangements and I found it interesting they put a template qualifier mentioning they are "...not affiliated with Charter Barclay Hospital." Never thought they were and I visited the site because they looked like a provider of floral arrangements in the search engine results as I posted above.
So for overall summary purposes, the only really questionable feature of the site is the inclusion of the hospital along with an active fax number when the hospital was shut down a few years prior to the launch of this particular storefront that seems to be a part of a larger network of actual florist providers. That is kinda spooky considering the controversies surrounding the facility, which include a former patient who first spoke of intent to kill and then went ahead and did it once he was released from the facility, which is but one of the many statistics used to battle back and forth as to what exactly another human has a right to do to another human in the name of mental "health." In addition to a few other sharp condemnations about the treatment of patients, this facility possessed two particular statistics raising no questions or challenges both in and out of the courtroom, both relating to the profitability of the facility.
With less than 30 beds in the facility for adolescents and a courtroom to demand payment from the Illinois Board of Education and of course the insurance companies, the price tags attached to the line-items delivered when the facility was operation still pales in comparison to those who still feel they didn't even come close to getting their money's worth relative to the promises pledged within all of the paperwork being signed back and forth. One patient had almost $50,000 worth of "treatment" and was released "only because no one can afford to pay for the services," while others left far more depressed and demoralized than when they originally entered. Some were able to continue their bullying tactics and techniques, endorsed by textbooks studying by more than just the professionals while others feared for their physical safety from not just the bullies, but those who may need to be taken into isolation and strapped down with restraints.
With virtually no one on the inside available to watch over the minute to minute activities as a neutral observer devoid job title with the hospital or even an insurance provider, perhaps it may be a matter of convenience for me to quickly relate additional layers to the environment through a recent conversation regarding what is referenced as SP within one community in particular, as it is meant to signify Suppressive Person. As is suggested through volumes of writings, videos, etc., an SP is to be avoided at all costs and permanently ostracized as a part of healthy cleansing of the internal heart, mind and soul.
Charter Barclay Hospital represented/s a locked-down facility for individuals labeled with whatever label suggests only a locked-down, hyper-intensive, frequently insensitive system of behavior modification was/is worth the big bucks it was demanding from people. Some consumers experienced "billing issues" while others discovered too late that their insurance policy was not going to pay for the "treatment" so rather than having choice and option of accepting the services already provided, the services are first forced upon the person with a "Too bad, so sad, but this person needed this kind of treatment."
So the only other way to once again pick up the trail as to how this particular entry is still being listed in an online setting as an existing and operational hospital would be to look at the number of purchases made for that particular address and that particular trail is one I'll never be permitted to view...nor do I need to. But perhaps someone looking to send flowers to Charter Barclay Hospital online might discover that since there is no Hospital at that address, there still can be flowers sent...just not directly to any patient or employee. It would be an act of sending flowers in memorial and who knows exactly where the flowers would be placed since there still isn't any building built on the property labeled as 4700 N. Clarendon.
That last suggestion is the last measure of reasonable doubt I could come up with to counter my unrest that the address doesn't even belong in an address directory, let alone a store front. However, memorials are frequently constructed at a moments notice and the last time I visited the property, the Charter Barclay Hospital building had been torn down, hence my adamant position of the building certainly not existing as it once did, and whether or not a mounted home plate on a fence surrounding the property was a prank being played by someone or somehow was meant to be some sort of symbol attached to the building that once was contains far more in-depth history than anyone could ever fully comprehend...in or out of that particular facility.
With no explanation as to why a fax number attached to the Hospital in 2012 is the same fax number published years and years ago is still active, I would think by now the receiver of calls looking for Charter Barclay Hospital would have become at least a nuisance by this point.
But perhaps more importantly...
I cannot help but wonder just how many people have sent faxes to that number believing that Charter Barclay Hospital not only still exists, but it is also seeming to accept communications from the public only via a fax machine. Who has the copies of the documents, if any, that have been attempted to be sent to an entity that was bought and absorbed by Magellan Health Care years ago? And who is currently paying for the line?
Just a few more questions to the already existing pile of questions all over the place...
