privacyman - 1:12 pm on May 25, 2005 (gmt 0)

For my own site I still have a decent position in A/V and in Yahoo I had never had too much there (part of its history for getting in) and in Google I had always had a comparable position that was similar to A/V.

Now it seems that my dot com site is totally gone from Google.

Couple years ago I had also gotten the net and org but never submitted either of them to any of the engines just wanted to cover my "back door" on my com domain so that someone else would not compete with my site. The site is not commercial but it has community "controversial issues" (alike "against redevelopment", alternative hiv views, some complainst against a few corporations for bad practices... facts are documented).... that's part of the reason why I got the other tld's so that a site opposing mine could not park at my back door and also to make it easy on someone just knowing the main domain they could use the com net or org and still get to my site.

Then all of a sudden the com domain became lost within Google. Searching for domain.com or www.domain.com yields nothing, the org and the net which I never submitted come up way the heck in the woods. Recently I put into my htaccess file a 301 for the net and org to go to the com domain.

My question is this:

Does Google or any of the other search engines ever submit to pressure by any corporations or anyone else to "drop a site" from their listings?

For any of the companies that I might have a documented complaint about, eg one nonprofit sold my address to other nonprofits yielded postal solicitations to me for a year; a major Tel Co release confidential subscriber info; another nonprofit showed discrimination; and a few others..... none of those that I have a complaint about has ever contacted me to say that it was libelous or slander or a false statement and none have ever had any lawyer contact me or taken any direct action.

THUS -- I am very curious if anyone in the forum knows for sure, or if any S/E reps who might read this if anyone can say if any engines submit to pressure or requests to remove a site from the index and I am particularly interested if Google may have done so.

Otherwise I can not find any other reason why my com site is totally gone and one or two pages of the org and net are there but way lost in the ranks. Totally unexplainable to me when the com is still decent in A/V and a few other engines.