Habtom - 12:07 pm on Dec 1, 2008 (gmt 0)

My site was offline from Oct 7 till Oct 23 (the whole time I was away) and nothing much changed in the SERP when I fixed the problem on the 25th. Mind you this site sees google crawlers quite frequently.

Though I agree it makes nosense to send visitors to a page which doesn't resolve, I don't think Google will throw you out of the SERP as soon as your site stops responding.

[edited by: Habtom at 12:09 pm (utc) on Dec. 1, 2008]