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When Your Site Ceases To Exist

Posted by kdawson on from the without-a-trace dept.

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."

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  1. Man, I thought it was bad when I lost 50 places... by bennomatic · · Score: 4, Funny
    My joke site (SSLI: Search for Satanic Lyrics) used to be the number one result for "Satanic Lyrics, but about two months ago, ZAP! Gone from the frone page of Google. It's something like number 50 now, so instead of getting... ummm... three visitors a day, I get something like one a week :-)

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  2. The Quick Fix by dj245 · · Score: 3, Funny

    1. Move all forums to Javalobbyforums.com or equivalent
    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!

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  3. What problem? by jcarkeys · · Score: 5, Funny

    They're on the Slashdot front page, I don't think they'll mind being off Google for a little while.

  4. Quick Fix Redux by dj245 · · Score: 4, Funny

    5. Have midgets properly proofread all posts

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    Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
    1. Re:Quick Fix Redux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Bah! No love for us unemployed dwarfs. You're nothing but a big-est!

  5. Re:Never heard of them before, so nothings' change by Kalriath · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dude. Slashdot is the last place I'd want to advertise. Their site will be down in minutes (what with being on the front page, and the article unabbreviated).

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  6. Re:Concentration of power unoticed by Google Fanbo by NineNine · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is there anything worse than Apple fanboys?

    Definitely. Linux fanboys.

  7. Re:Man, I thought it was bad when I lost 50 places by GoofyBoy · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just visited your site just so I could joke around about being your single weekly hit.

    Joke's on me and my poor eyes; I can't believe that you are ranked so high up at 50.

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  8. Re:Never heard of them before, so nothings' change by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Who would have ever know! Not something an editor would check, is it?

  9. It exists... by xwizbt · · Score: 3, Funny

    Try typing any mis-spelling of javalobby. Anything. Google offers you the alternative of 'javalobby'. They *so* do not recognise this website... so much so that they dare to *suggest* it as an alternative to a common mis-spelling of the forbidden site. Bastards! How deep does their vitriol run?

  10. Alex Chiu by tylersoze · · Score: 5, Funny

    Join the club, Alex Chiu has been blacklisted by Google for years.

    http://www.alexchiu.com/spread.htm

    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?"