google.com went online, and during that time constitution.org has ranked high on
Google, at or near the top for a search on "constitution".
But this past week constitution.org disappeared from google.com's index. If you go
to www.google.com and do a search on "constitution.org", it will return a page
that says:
Sorry, no information is available for the URL constitution.org
Of course, right below that it offers a link to it, which you can click on and get
our home page, which, except for a brief period a few months ago when the server
was down due to a power failure in Los Angeles, and perhaps a few short
maintenance periods while being transferred from one server to another, has never
gone down.
The third statement below the one above is
Find web pages that contain the term "constitution.org"
When I first discovered this situation April 26, 2006, I could click on that and
find that 178,000 pages linked to a page on our site. Today, April 30, that number
is down to 137,000.
It is almost as though some Orwellian Ministry of Information has infiltrated
Google and initiated an erasure not only of the indexes to the site, but to pages
that link to the site.
Needless to say, I resubmitted the domain for crawling, something I have never had
to do.
This situation has come to the attention of a lot of people, and brought a lot of
inquiries. A common reaction is, "Did we get the Chinese version of the Google
servers?"
I have done similar queries on other search engines. No problem with any of the
others. You can try them from http://www.constitution.org/search.htm and
http://www.constitution.org/seartool.htm
I have sent an inquiry to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which has brought a response in
years past. So far no reply. People receiving this message might make your own
inquiries, perhaps to other addresses. This situation is nothing if not interesting.
You might also spread the word to the media. This is news.
-- Jon
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