Censored by Google

I feel so dirty.

I am not sure how or why this has happened, but my site smileproject.com has been evicted from Google's index. Erased, gone, buh-bye. (yup, I googled myself).

I have done some research into why this could have happened - and I have written Google a very polite email requesting they reinstate my domain - but like, wow, it certainly brings home how much power Google has. Their website claims that they can simply choose to remove from their index a domain without explanation if they feel that it violates their standards of quality (cloaking for instance is very bad). I have not deliberately done anything to raise my Google visibility - so I am totally perplexed as to what corrective measures to take.

Suggestions, comments, sympathy?

Jason Van Anden

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, Jason Van Anden

A Rhizome member just emailed me directly who found my name on the fourth page after googling me ie:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Jason+Van+Anden

I appreciate the feedback, but the problem is not my name, its my domain "smileproject.com". The domain has been erased from Google. My site used to be really well indexed, and appeared at the top of searches like it still does here on Yahoo:

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Smile+Project

As opposed to here on Google:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=smile+project

Now it is just gone. Poof! And not only from Google, it seems that MSN and AOL use Google for their searches. Links to my domain from other places are still there (thank goodness) just not from within my domain.

Jason Van Anden

, Pall Thayer

smiling is obscene.

Jason Van Anden wrote:
> A Rhizome member just emailed me directly who found my name on the fourth page after googling me ie:
>
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Jason+Van+Anden
>
> I appreciate the feedback, but the problem is not my name, its my domain "smileproject.com". The domain has been erased from Google. My site used to be really well indexed, and appeared at the top of searches like it still does here on Yahoo:
>
> http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Smile+Project
>
> As opposed to here on Google:
>
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=smile+project
>
> Now it is just gone. Poof! And not only from Google, it seems that MSN and AOL use Google for their searches. Links to my domain from other places are still there (thank goodness) just not from within my domain.
>
> Jason Van Anden
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, Jason Van Anden

For the record - my domain is listed again on Google. It's like Google had an index brownout - that lasted for more than a month. I find this pretty weird and a little disturbing. Anyone else ever encounter this sort of thing?

Jason Van Anden

, MTAA

My only complaint with Google right now is that they bumped us down
from #1 to #2 when you search on "MTAA"

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=mtaa&btnG=Search

Bastards.

But, the evil empire lists us at #1… perhaps not so evil after all?

http://beta.search.msn.com/results.aspx?FORM=MSNH&srch_type=0&q=mtaa


On Feb 2, 2005, at 12:01 PM, Jason Van Anden wrote:

> For the record - my domain is listed again on Google. It's like
> Google had an index brownout - that lasted for more than a month. I
> find this pretty weird and a little disturbing. Anyone else ever
> encounter this sort of thing?
>
> Jason Van Anden

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