netmeg - 11:54 pm on Aug 5, 2006 (gmt 0)

It's a good start. But I wish there were still some easy method for US to communicate with Google, other than the newsgroups, which are kind of a pain to wade through when you have a specific issue.

For example, I try to prune out dead urls pretty regularly, and I was trying to remove an url tonight using the normal url removal tool as I always do, but it kept telling me that it still existed on the website. Well it doesn't exist on the website; it returns a 404 - I host the website and the page no longer exists, and when I click on the link in Google, it takes me to the 404. But the tool still thinks it's live for some reason.

It'd be great to have some place to report stuff like this; I'd think that Webmaster Central would be the perfect sort of place. But there's no easy way to do this.

Also, I sure wish they'd give an option to put all the sites on one page, instead of having to scroll through pages. I have 61 sites in Sitemaps right now, and it'd be a lot easier if I could just have them on one page when I want to quickly find the site I need to check.

But overall, it's good to see updates.