Comments on: Google and Me, Part II http://dmarron.com/2009/11/22/google-and-me-part-ii/ Musings on Economics, Finance, and Life Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:27:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Donald Marron http://dmarron.com/2009/11/22/google-and-me-part-ii/#comment-1447 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:23:40 +0000 http://dmarron.com/?p=2176#comment-1447 No, no explanation, but I didn’t really pester Google directly. Based on some web research (using Bing, since I felt miffed), I discovered that this has happened to some other folks and that possible causes include (a) a change in the search algorithm or (b) something bad happening to whatever Google server happened to be in charge of my site.

I was a bit surprised, through, that it took even longer to re-establish my spot in the search results than it did to get recognized in the first place.

]]> By: Brooks http://dmarron.com/2009/11/22/google-and-me-part-ii/#comment-1446 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:11:18 +0000 http://dmarron.com/?p=2176#comment-1446 Glad to see Google may be finally taking their “Don’t be evil” motto seriously ;-)

]]> By: Ira Stoll http://dmarron.com/2009/11/22/google-and-me-part-ii/#comment-1445 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:06:23 +0000 http://dmarron.com/?p=2176#comment-1445 Did you get any explanation of why it disappeared or why it was restored?

]]> By: Greg Ransom http://dmarron.com/2009/11/22/google-and-me-part-ii/#comment-1441 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:03:12 +0000 http://dmarron.com/?p=2176#comment-1441 Google stopped listing my “PrestoPundit” blog sometime shortly after I began posting on Barack Obama and the economics and politics of his Harvard-trained economists father (Google: “Barak Obama” “socialism” “father” “Keyna”, etc.)

I had to shut down the blog and start over.

Google never responded to my emails and never explained what happened.

I assume Obama supporters “red flagged” my blog, and Google deleted it from their search engine. At the time, there were a number of published reports of Obama supporters doing just this to “kill” various site that the Obama campaign didn’t like.

]]> By: Dean Wilson http://dmarron.com/2009/11/22/google-and-me-part-ii/#comment-1438 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:23:34 +0000 http://dmarron.com/?p=2176#comment-1438 I love your mention of the Long Tail. Do you plan to discuss this in our micro class? I’ll be trying to think up any ways it’s relevant to policy.

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