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danimal - 5:36 am on Sep 2, 2005 (gmt 0)


the site: command search is bringing up a list of the zipped video files on my site... google has attempted to index all of the content of each of the zip files, it's showing up as gibberish text surrounding the filename that's inside the zip file.

some of these zipped video files are showing up as what google thinks is a page full of japanese content that it attempts to translate, lol.

i can find no reference here or in the google website faqs about this capability of crawling and indexing the actual content of zip files... needless to say, it's trashing the google index with worthless data.

several weeks ago this website took an inexplicable nosedive in the ratings, so i'm also wondering if this zip issue is relevant to that.


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