Re: Google dance

From: Robert Day <rpday_at_btinternet.com>
Date: Wed 26 Nov 2003 13:55:12 -0600

This is far more than a Google Dance.
It's a wholesale zapping of commercial web sites, probably
using the dictionary system that you mentioned.
When I search for the phrases that used to find my clients, I
now only find big company sites, .gov's, .org's, .ac's,
directories and shopping sites.
I have clients' sites that were sitting nicely at the top
of Google a week ago, and now they're nowhere to be seen.
Google has missed the odd word from its dictionary (I won't say
which because they will just zap my clients' sites for those words
also).
My clients are already talking of laying off staff. About half a
dozen of their sites have been taken off Google (and they are all
for different subjects, not mirrors of each other). How can a company
survive when its main route for traffic is suddenly cut off.
This all happened without notice. And they won't answer my emails.

I urge everyone affected to complain most strongly to Google.
if they keep to their new policy, they will be a shadow of themselves
in a year's time, but we'll all be out of business by then.

Rob





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