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Atomenabled = of about 118,000 in Google [January 26, 2007]. It hasn’t been bombed enough.

Sean, what’s odd is that this site no longer shows up in results.  Many (most?) of those thousands of sites point to it, and the search term is both fairly unique and appears in the site name.

I first noticed this when I searched for Atom Spec, which used to return the this page.  This seemed very odd, but I quickly forgot about it until I read the phrase Now we will typically return commentary, discussions, and articles about the Googlebombs instead.

Google is restructuring search results. Atomenabled.org will eventually reappear from manual “correction”. Or, someone from the organization can contact Matt Cutts or Google for reinclusion.

When I wrote Interwingly Kidney Bongos it was first in search results for interwingly until a Google Editor was kind enough to set Planet Intertwingly first.

Google Editors have been very busy lately.

Hear hear for comments :-P  ... I didn’t understand your original post. “Um. So?” Now it is clear. The Sam-ism communication style can be opaque sometimes :-P

Yeah. Dropping that site is a bit wonky. I’ll ensure Matt sees this. Thanks!

When I wrote Interwingly Kidney Bongos it was first in search results for interwingly until a Google Editor was kind enough to set Planet Intertwingly first.

What a pity.  I personally think that your page is a better match for that particular search.

Interesting question: was it a Google Editor that set Planet Intertwingly first, or was it “about 200” typos?  If the latter, it represents a form of GoogleBombing that enables Google to respect the collective will of people who link to my site by effectively establishing an alias for my site.

Dropping that site is a bit wonky. I’ll ensure Matt sees this.

Thanks!

was it a Google Editor that set Planet Intertwingly first, or was it “about 200” typos?

My experience (and from things I’ve read about) regarding the mysteries of Google, is that each “Planet Interwingly” and “Interwingly” inclusion was an editor, i.e., they are not search results since they do not have any descriptive text beneath the page title/link. It seems to be Google’s immediate attempt for identifying “typos”. I’m sure that one day you’ll get “Did you mean: Intertwingly”.

If the latter, it represents a form of GoogleBombing...

Kinda. Even after writing that above article and striving to remember it’s “Twingly”, I don’t. Maybe, if I think something like “Ruby senses twingling”, I’ll remember.

Hi, just stopping by to give an update. It doesn’t have anything to do with the Googlebomb change, but I’ll look into it; I think I can find out what’s going on.

Aha, I think I found the problem. It was completely unrelated to the Googlebomb change. Instead, we were seeing a ton of spam on urls like
atomenabled.org/blog/Copy_Expert_2.3_Keygen.phtml
atomenabled.org/blog/net_tools_3.2_crack.phtml
atomenabled.org/blog/diskeeper_9_full_crack_download.phtml
atomenabled.org/blog/CODIGOS_NEED_FOR_SPEED_2_SPECIAL_EDITION.phtml
atomenabled.org/blog/STREET_LEGAL_RACING:_REDLINE_patch_2.21.phtml
atomenabled.org/blog/Kaspersky.Anti.Hacker.v1.8.crack.phtml

You can still see these urls in Yahoo right now (Sunday, 1/28/2007). The spam template looked like it was on other non-phtml pages as well, like atomenabled.org/blog/about.php, which is what caused the confusion.

So my estimate is that atomenabled.org got hacked, and it had a large enough quantity of spam pages (and a few on regular pages like the /blog/about.php page) that it affected the reputation of the whole domain for Google. Checking now, the /blog/ url returns a 403, so I’m guessing you’ve kicked out the hacked pages. I’m submitting a reinclusion request for the domain, and I expect that the site should be reincluded within 24-48 hours or so.

I’m guessing you’ve kicked out the hacked pages

Not me.

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Interwingly update. Google has placed - as actual search results - Intertwingly.net as No. 4 and No. 5 results. Nicely done.

“Google Editors have been very busy lately.”

Funny how much human effort and intervention is required to (tweak) the automated solutions the G-techies obsess over ..