August 19th, 2009
Google FAIL
I’m gonna ride my co-workers coat-tails and just reference his post. This has happened to other people I know in the past and I don’t see Google’s bureaucratic process changing anytime soon. C’mon Google, with all the uber-tech-mojo you claim to have you can’t come up with a more expedited system of taking “bad” sites that have been fixed and making them show up in peoples browsers again without the FAIL warning for a month straight?
<rant>First it was the US financial and automobile sectors that were on my @#$# list, and now it’s Google too.</rant>
Google, you need to keep in mind that no matter how hard any one tries these days they may get hacked or have a DOS attack launched against them. It’s unfortunate that you make the process so difficult for the little guys. I mean without our content, you would have nothing to index to begin with. So cut us some slack.
Oh, and btw, just say you were us? How would it make you feel if your site looked like this for a month after you had fixed it and submitted it for evaluation?
Doesn’t feel too good when you’re in our shoes does it?
Anyway, the indexing on my blog will probably be turned off now…oh and btw Google, we’ve got our DOJ hounds hot on your heels…



August 19th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Best of luck with that. Google will de-index your site on a whim. I used to run a mildly successful site called mp3salad which had been de-indexed by Google with no explanation. Like you, the canned response is not helpful and does not include any specific information as to why the site was blacklisted or what you could do to get it fixed.
For being such a large company, their customer service (for lack of a better term) is horrible, practically non-existent. I eventually got the site listed again, but in turn had my adsense account ‘disabled’ for a week. And again, with no specific information as to why the account was blocked I just gave up.
It really sucks for those of us that have good intentions and do not deliberately violate their TOS yet get black listed. I lost a lot of respect for Google given my experience with them. They’ve become the new Evil!!!!
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August 31st, 2010 at 2:32 am
OMG, that really sucks!