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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. Re:It's their own fault... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Thanks for the "heads up" about Dodgeit.com, I was looking for a new email service for my next campaign.

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