Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
January 29, 2007
DeGoogled

Google decided to make Baseball Musings disappear. Where a search for Baseball Musings used to turn up this blog as number one, it now shows my old blogger page. The home page used to own a Google rank of 7, but now it's down to zero. I guess my stance on Google and China finally caught up with me. Ask.com still works however.

I'll be writing Google to try to get my search and status restored.

Update: It looks like it may be a problem on my site, rather than a delisting by Google.

Update: My host tells me that Google was being denied access to my site due to abuses by various bots. They've been unblocked now. With luck, you'll be able to find the site again in a couple of days.


Posted by David Pinto at 12:41 PM | Blogs | TrackBack (0)
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there was an article in the NYT this morning about google changing some of their search algorithms, so that searching for "miserable failure" will not longer give you the official white house page as the first hit. i wonder if you got caught in the crossfire somehow.

Posted by: amos at January 29, 2007 01:37 PM

I hope that's all it is.

Posted by: David Pinto at January 29, 2007 01:44 PM

There is a Google "dance" going on right now, I believe. Rankings and PageRank values are hopping around, but they should settle down in the coming week. I imagine that you'll be back up at the top shortly!

Posted by: Sam Stevens at January 29, 2007 02:05 PM

Checked this out?:

googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/controlling-how-search-engines-access.html

Posted by: oj at January 29, 2007 03:32 PM

What have you changed in the site template code recently? You're still showing up fine in other engines though I'm sure losing Google hurts.

Posted by: J at January 29, 2007 03:59 PM

Go to the Google and use their webmaster tools to index your page. I have a friend who worked for Google, they don't delist people, they don't play favorites for employees, they just tinker with their bots and algorithms and things get screwy sometimes.
http://www.google.com/webmasters/

Posted by: Bookninja at January 30, 2007 07:20 AM
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