Google Blog Search has turned into a useless piece of shit. It randomly censors my posts from its index.
A couple weeks ago, it stopped indexing my posts and removed all posts after December 11. In the past, a manual ping would usually cure the problem right away. If the manual ping didn’t do the trick, I would send Google a message informing them of the problem and it would mysteriously start working without any response from them.
After informing them of the problem, it appeared to have started indexing my posts again but still excluded the previously censored posts back to December 11. I thought this might have simply been a glitch and was happy that they were at least indexing.
However, I just noticed today that they have started censoring my posts again. Now all posts that were previously indexed prior to January 3 are missing – again all posts back to December 11. Posts such as: “Ron Paul Rising”, “Ron Paul wins Newsmax Poll”, “Ron Paul raises nearly $30 million”, “Huckabee on list of top 10 most corrupt politicians”, “Voters ask ‘who would Jesus bomb’, Huckabee has them arrested”, and “Adam Curry endorses Ron Paul” have all mysteriously disappeared from the index.
Anyone else having this problem?
The problem that I have with Google Blog Search that makes it almost useless is that the results turn up more spam blogs than actual legitimate blogs.
We’ve noticed popular Ron Paul videos on YouTube having their view counts locked as well, causing them to drop off the most viewed list. YouTube is owned by Google, btw.
I feel so sorry for everyone that is getting hurt by Google. The more I research this the more it pisses me off. That is why I created http://www.googlehorrorstories.net, so people like you can have a place to post your stories and maybe help to get Google to change their ways. I appreciate all you bloggers getting the word out on your sites about how Google has treated you. Please feel free to duplicate you stories at my site so that we can have a one stop shop for Google Horror Stories and just maybe we can spur google to change their ways. Thanks!
thanks much, man