Chico_Loco - 8:37 pm on Feb 3, 2004 (gmt 0)

Perhaps GoogleGuy could confirm this, or at least deny it if this is not the truth.

I don't think Google would do something like this deliberately, althought it probably would not surprise me!

I just can't see the logic behind wiping out a fair portion of their index, the end result would be a less concise collection of web pages than their competitiors. Seems a bit like censorship to me.. and although Google would have the right to do that, it certainly wouldn't help their image.. My attitude would be "Hey buddy, you do your job and index the pages, I'll decide what I wanna click on or visit!"

How are you guys determining the pages lost, just by doing a site: search. Do the number of pages returned reflect what *should be* indexed or do they indicate the total previously indexed minus the ones removed?