Rx_Recruiters - 5:58 am on Aug 3, 2005 (gmt 0)

Sunflower, I too was banned from Google for no apparent reason. A glimmer of hope today - A reinclusion request I made last week was answered today - I put my first name in the text of the message, and they at least took the time to say "Dear Thomas", which hopefully means they looked at the message.

Unfortunately, it was the request I made on the day I was deleted, so my tone was more emotional than logical. They DID however say they would forward my site name and the e-mail to the Google engineers for further evaluation. A faint glimmer of hope?

You can't help but to think that they sit around and laugh at some of the e-mails they get about this. If it doesn't affect their life, and it isn't their site being targeted, it is easy not to take this seriously. I'm sure most of the ones that have been there a while are multi-millionaires now anyway, so what do they care? It is hard to believe that a few years ago Google was just an idea that two college kids had, now they seem to be "kings of the world".

Anyway, in my reinclusion request I challenged them to evaluate the site in person, and show me why, while it was worthy of number one rankings for the past 5 years, as of July 28th it wasn't good enough to be in the index. A search engine gone mad .....