The People's Cube

[cema]

Seriozhka, konchai duraka valat' - bylo vremia kogda my toboi gordilis'!

Indeed, wtf?

Update. Explanation. So why do we have to read it on some blog? Is there a way a regular user of google can know about such things?

Comments

[paulney.livejournal.com]

They probably had the same happen to them as German version of BMW website (bmw.de if I recall correctly). Google deemed that the site presented itself differently to the bot and to the actual live user (a big no-no). Penalty for such behavior is swift and ultimate: removal from Google's db.

[solomon2.livejournal.com]

It hurts!

[cema.livejournal.com]

Could be. But there is absolutely no information about this anywhere. At least I did not find it. :-)

[paulney.livejournal.com]

I don't think they advertise this fact. They didn't with BMW.de - people realized what happened and started blogging about it :)

[dimrub.livejournal.com]

Yep.

[larisaka.livejournal.com]

Интересно, интересно.

[ivanlenin.livejournal.com]

The story is on LGF:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=19615_Google_Purges_Peoples_Cube#comments

Гугль доиграется, я надеюсь

[cema.livejournal.com]

Well, it depends. I mean, if the reason is technical non-compliance, then I do not see any problem with it. (Except that such cases should be explicitly stated.) It is not political, I am sure about that.

[juan-gandhi.livejournal.com]

Я хуею, дорогая редакция. Спасибо за сведения.

[cema.livejournal.com]

Дело в том, что даже технические проблемы так не решают. (Я уверен, что дело в них, а не в политике и т.п.)

[juan-gandhi.livejournal.com]

Может быть, технические проблемы так не решают. Но для роботов, борющихся со спамом, этот народный куб ничем не отличается от "мои козявочки дот нет" или там "ношеные женские трусы дот ком".

Спамерский сайт. Временно помещён в изолятор.

[cema.livejournal.com]

А, так он считается спамерским? Были жалобы или это связано с техническими причинами?

Так или иначе, надо бы знать, в чём дело.

[ktotam.livejournal.com]

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-check-your-own-site/

[cema.livejournal.com]

Yes, but see update.

[ktotam.livejournal.com]

certain actions such as cloaking, (http://www.google.com/webmasters/2a.html) writing text that can be seen by search engines but not by users, or setting up pages/links with the sole purpose of fooling search engines may result in permanent removal from our index.

To preserve the accuracy and quality of our search results, (http://web.archive.org/web/20050401071412/http://www.google.com/webmasters/faq.html#cloaking) Google may permanently ban from our index any sites or site authors that engage in cloaking to distort their search rankings.

[cema.livejournal.com]

Right, but my point is, people need to know about this. To know who is banned for what.

[ktotam.livejournal.com]

that's what this page -- "My webpages used to be listed and now they aren't" -- is for. it lists the possible options.
in case of removal by court order the information is displayed on the search results page (try searching for "kazaa" on google.com or for "stormfront" on google.de, and vice versa)

Let's see

[cema.livejournal.com]

Searched for "kazaa", got some results, and then a notice: In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org. Good.

Now I am searching for "The People's Cube"; no notice appears. Searching for "thepeoplescube"; still no notice.

Re: Let's see

[ktotam.livejournal.com]

sure -- these pages weren't removed by a court order or any such. reasons for their deletion are cited above.

[cema.livejournal.com]

Yes, and my point is, I think this is insufficient.

[ktotam.livejournal.com]

Opinions differ. I'm not sure I want to read about every spammer who got blacklisted from search results. I suspect there'll be too many of them. It is in google's best interests to provide the most relevant search results, after all; how exactly they do it is their problem.