Thanks bink and A-Parsa for this. A great thread emerged yesterday at WebmasterWorld.com about how someone managed to apparently remove the home pages of Microsoft and Adobe from Google. But was it true?

Yes, Google says. The company sent this statement today:

"We can confirm that less than 10 websites were inadvertently removed from Google's index for several hours [Thursday]. All of these sites have been restored and are accessible through a Google search. The removal occurred as the result of an outside attempt to abuse Google's automated web page removal tool -- a free service we provide webmasters who would like to remove web pages they own from Google's index. Upon discovering this bug, we fixed it immediately. We will also perform a thorough analysis to ensure additional web pages were not inappropriately removed."

The thread was started by a person who claimed he removed the pages to highlight the fact that his own home page had been removed, apparently by a competitor.

View: Google Confirms Automated Page Removal Bug
News source: Bink.nu

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Version 3.70 ( 15 May 2004 )

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    (4 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by saluyot on 17 May 2004 - 08:55
    oh what? a google bug?
    Quote this comment #1.1 Posted by vettimdorr on 17 May 2004 - 15:07
    A boogle
    Quote this comment #1.2 Posted by one321 on 17 May 2004 - 15:41
    Haha
    Quote this comment #1.3 Posted by DsnBehind on 17 May 2004 - 19:05
    QUOTE (#1.1)
    A boogle

    Hey that was pretty good.
    Quote this comment #1.4 Posted by oqwarrior on 18 May 2004 - 01:05
    http://www.boogle.com/
    Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by werejag on 17 May 2004 - 09:13
    lol
    Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by pHuzi0n on 17 May 2004 - 10:25
    Finally some large exposure of this flaw. Affiliate marketers have been aware of the problem for several years but Google doesn't care much about them much because they're only advertising for other companies which makes them all comptetitors against Google's ad service. The way that Google should tell people to use in order to get their site out of the search index would be to put a robots.txt file on their server that disallows Google's spider. That way nobody would be able to remove a site from the index without having control over the site they're trying to remove.
    (5 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by TDavid on 17 May 2004 - 15:47
    Interesting Google bug.

    Is it just me or is that Vonage ad on this page cutting off the text at 1028x768? We already have Vonage for our home and both businesses.
    Quote this comment #4.1 Posted by neufuse on 17 May 2004 - 15:59
    that ad in general is getting annoying... it's way to big for where it is even at 1024x768
    Quote this comment #4.2 Posted by Trajik 2600 on 17 May 2004 - 16:00
    I'm glad they fixed the bug.. it's already bad enough for legitimate SEO firms that spamming the index still seems to work fairly well, provided you don't cross the invisible line and get your site banned from the index. Unfair competition (such as this bug) needs to stop.

    I resized my window down (1280x1024) and the ad did start overlapping the text.

    How is Vonage?
    Quote this comment #4.3 Posted by Brill on 17 May 2004 - 16:08
    Looks like some bad html programming on the part of the neowin site. I didn't notice it until I resized my window.. im running pretty high res. so it doesn't really bother me.
    Quote this comment #4.4 Posted by sp0rk on 17 May 2004 - 18:42
    Looks like some bad rendering on the part of Internet Explorer. Renders perfectly in Firefox.
    Quote this comment #4.5 Posted by trj on 17 May 2004 - 20:52
    The ad, apart from being annoying, renders incorrectly in Opera as well. However, this is easily rectified by simply killing the ad:
    Clear Ads.
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