jk3210 - 8:07 am on Mar 10, 2005 (gmt 0)

What I find interesting is that my main site had identical #1 rankings in both Yahoo and Google for the exact same term for years. Now the site remains #1 in Yahoo, but in the last two weeks page after page in Google has followed a similar path of:

No spidering--> Lowered ranking--> URL-only Listing--> Gray-bar--> Gone. Some pages even go to a "non-www" listing before they're dropped.

The question I have is WHY is Google sticking with their present system of handling 302s --what's the benefit to them? For some REASON Google has made a conscience decision to stick with their current method --why? What is it that we aren't seeing.

And before the chorus gets started --Google isn't "evil" and Google isn't "stupid."<G> But, for some specific reason, Google sees something of value in this mess that we aren't seeing --what is it?