Just wanted to let you all know that after a lot of researching I finally got a hold someone who knew something about this garbage. The www.stopbadware.org which has been funded by Google, has been banning sites based on bad software being distributed from sites and other reasons as well, but also from other third party blacklists that have helped. This message was posted on a google groups posting regarding the appeals process. Apparently, anyone can call in the blacklist and bash their opponents and get them blacklisted....I still hope someone out there can tell me I'm wrong but so far that isn't the case....
Here's the response I got from someone named Erica...if that's her real name :) Hi folks, While I'm not in charge of the appeals process for StopBadware, I will see what information we've got and try to get some more information out to this list as soon as possible. I'll also check in with the staffers who sort through our many appeals and see if they can get you answers on the status of your specific situations. *Please note that for us to start investigating an appeal, we need you to send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with details about which URL is being blocked and how to contact you.* We're also as I type in the process of some much-needed updates to our website to make sure there's better and more complete information available for people whose websites are experiencing a block - known as an "interstitial page" - from Google. I don't expect to finish it all today, but in the near future I'd like to have a complete step by step guide to how and why interstitial pages get created by Google, and how our appeals process works. We're also working on streamlining the appeals process, including recruiting more staff to handle the workload. It'd be great for me in getting these updates drafted to have a sense of what questions you're having that are not being answered on our site. So please let me know if there are specific questions you'd like to see added to our FAQ (beyond those addressed already in this thread). Thanks! Erica I also sent and email to the appeals email address provided here and they responded with, "Your message has been put at the bottom of the queue and it will take 10 days to review your site and return a response". AWESOME work Google and stopbadware, apparently people can't think for themselves!!! >>> Hey guys, >>> >>> I went to google and typed in "Greenbush" to get a listing of our >>> site >>> www.greenbush.org and when I clicked on the url, it dumps me to >>> http://www.google.com/interstitial?url=http://www.greenbush.org/ >>> >>> How did this happen...google won't respond and this stopBadWare.org site >>> is >>> slow to respond as well. >>> >>> We're an education service center....I've written a few RSS feeds and >>> some >>> content management stuff, but certainly nothing to break a computer, no >>> virus software, or bad applications as they descibe... any idea how to >>> get >>> this crap to stop so the organic traffic will continue? >>> >>> Did someone report us and now we're Blacklisted from Google or is this >>> something else? >>> >>> Any help is much appreciated..... >>> >>> Matt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:223829 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
