----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Wolman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: website blackilisting
> Douglas Clark wrote:
>
>> Google seem to have blacklisted my website under their Bourbon update. I
>> have no idea why. To prove search 'Douglas Clark's Home Page' on Yahoo,
>> MSN and Google. It means over 300 literary files are out of practical
>> reach plus other stuff. Sad.
>>
>> Douglas Clark, Bath, Somerset, England ....
>> http://www.dgdclynx.plus.com
>
> This is incomprehensible to me especially since the little I seen about
> the Bourbon update is that it's intended to filter out spam. Isn't
> everything? I take it from what you say, Douglas, that Google has made
> you one of the disappeared, not that your ISP has frozen access to your
> site. Nevertheless, Google appears to have turned into a know-all-see-all
> monolith that can break a site's contact with the rest of the world.
>
> Do you know why this might have happened? Can Google and/or the ISP be
> queried about what might have led them to this?
>
> Maybe someone here with a clue about how search engines can be made to
> work can explain this.
>
> Ken
>
What I should have said is that I have been penalised. Which means dropping
about 150 slots in the rankings and for my Home Page being bottom of the
list. My site was designed about ten years ago before Google existed and
Sergei used it as an example in one of his papers, but all I can spot is
that several files have over 100 links to a page. In the past this didnt
matter but Bourbon may be getting more dictatorial. I am certainly not going
to redesign the site now so it looks like I have lost one of my hobbies,
which is my daily check of the hits and seeing what searches have found on
my site. The nuisance is things like the Long Poem Group Newsletter which I
put up for other people will become history.
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