carlosnx - 11:55 am on Aug 5, 2005 (gmt 0)

Hi Tiger,

Just reading the posts and talking with other webmasters at same situation.

I will let here another data. As I said at previous posts I manage about 175 websites. Probably at 10 or 15 of these websites, can exist technical reasons for get a ban from any search engine at any time. Is a risk that I accept. No one of these "limit" websites are banned.

But site banned has not any reason for be banned except a Patent dispute with Google in US and in Europe, and is a real menace for one of its projects...

All people with a spammy sites banned, just need to adjust some robots.txt files, remove some duplicate content and they will see the website back. They are not the target of this action. These spammy websites are the real basis of Google business, geting visitors for adsense program with any dirty techniques not only at Google SERPS but also at other search engine SERPS. Google ban and unban them when he want using these actions somtimes for keep the image of a "good boy" or just for make smoke for other hidden purposes.
Banning competitors at same time that some thousends of spammers, still the idea that "some reason must exist" and also that "nobody is inocent". Is really the way to kill the prestige of serious projects menacing Google's interest.

europeforvisitors said yesterday "If they're banning sites that compete with them for revenue, why do I keep running across Yahoo Travel pages in Google's SERPs?"

I can answer you: because you are completly irrelevant for the real volume. At moment you become relevant, you will be baned. Same happens with my website.