WebFusion - 11:00 pm on Aug 31, 2005 (gmt 0)

The drama level exhibited here is laughable.

You are attributing an emotional response to something that is essentially a machine. If your toaster burns your toast, to you call it corrupt, and tell the world that it "betrayed" you.

Show me 10 webmasters who think their site is the "authority" in any sector, and you'll quickly find 10 more that disagree.

In the grand scheme of things, google VERY rarely manually drops sites, and the "good" sites that do get dropped are normally due to either a

a: Better qualified site out ranking them *gasp*

or

b: A glitch in google's AUTOMATED ranking system(s)

Essentially what you're saying is that if google's AUTOMATED system drops your site for any reason, it MUST be corruption at work.

....BUT....let's play devils advocate and say you're right. The bid, bad, evil googleplex is out to get YOU with their corrupt and evil AUTOMATED ranking system.

If so, I assume you have then BANNED all Googlebots from crawling your site, correct? Surely you have the courage of your convictions and don't ever want to reappear in google's index and receive free traffic from such a corrupt source, right?

While you're at it, you should probably ban Yahoo's crawler too, as they used to use google's AUTOMATED results, so must by extension be corrupt themselves as much spam as THEY let in, they surely can't be "good").

...and don't forget MSN, as we all know microsoft is as evil as they come, right?