When Your Site Ceases To Exist 191
El Lobo writes with a sobering account of how Javalobby dropped off the face of Google last month. The site had been attacked by forum spammers and Google indexed some of their spew before the Javalobby guys could remove it. According to a post in Rich Skrenta's blog, Google is now the de-facto front page for the Internet, accounting for anywhere from 70% to 78% of the search market. The power this conveys is hard to overstate. From the Javalobby saga: "We had completely disappeared from Google's main index! If you run a website, then you know how serious a problem this is. On any given day over 10,000 visitors arrive at Javalobby as a result of Google searches, and suddenly they stopped coming! ... Suddenly we no longer existed in the eyes of Google."
Man, I thought it was bad when I lost 50 places... (Score:5, Funny)
The Quick Fix (Score:4, Funny)
2. ???
3. Hire 'little people' in multicoloured pointy hats to help generate traffic for your site not that it is now google acceptable
4. Profit!
What problem? (Score:5, Funny)
Quick Fix Redux (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Quick Fix Redux (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Never heard of them before, so nothings' change (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Concentration of power unoticed by Google Fanbo (Score:3, Funny)
Definitely. Linux fanboys.
Re:Man, I thought it was bad when I lost 50 places (Score:5, Funny)
Joke's on me and my poor eyes; I can't believe that you are ranked so high up at 50.
Re:Never heard of them before, so nothings' change (Score:1, Funny)
It exists... (Score:3, Funny)
Alex Chiu (Score:5, Funny)
http://www.alexchiu.com/spread.htm [alexchiu.com]
A choice quote:
"Google controls 50% of the world's searches. This famous website is so controversial that it has been banned by the most popular search engine in the world 'Google'. That's right. You cannot find alexchiu.com in Google system. Some very important people don't want you to know about Alex Chiu. Alex Chiu is on more than 30 TV interviews, 250 radio interviews, and in business ever since 1996. Yet AlexChiu.com cannot show up on Google?"