dasboot - 12:32 am on Jan 4, 2004 (gmt 0)

Hi Stefan & Dirkz,

Thanks for the encouraging words. The perm. redirect (and not-www link destruction) was done over a month ago. We figured it would cause some hiccups - but to have a slow death at this time of year is financially a genuine slow death.

The 301 had to be done - because a single not-www link out there could cause a similar problem in future.

Why Google chose to list our site as not-www, when the ratio of www to not-www incomings links is 100-1, and our DMOZ and Yahoo listings are also www is anyone's guess. So we had to bite the bullet at some point and set up the 301.

And yes Dirkz - I have stated it before - perhaps too often and in too florid language. I think Google is bust.