Major Google Loophole Let Anyone Remove Any Site From Google Jul 20, 2011 • 9:29 am | (13) by Barry Schwartz | Filed Under Google Search Engine Optimization Prev Story Next story
Yesterday morning, James Breckenridge discovered a huge bug in Google Webmaster Tools that technically gave anyone the ability to remove any site from Google's index. I held off on reporting it here and on Search Engine Land until I know Google fixed the issue. At about 2:30pm (EDT) yesterday, Google informed me that they are investigating the issue and has pulled the URL Removal feature until they can fix it. It was then safe for me to report it and I did. Google told us:
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