Impending Weblog tab?

high-profile weblogging site "disappears"

[abates]

I noticed a couple of days ago that a certain high-profile weblogging site has lost all of the snippets and caches for every single page on the site and its subdomains. Attempting to retrieve the cache for pages comes up with the message "Content removed at the request of the site's publisher", yet there's no NOARCHIVE metatag on the pages. robots.txt checks out too. Toolbar still appears to be reporting PR for the pages, and they still come up in SERPS, but I wonder for how long...

Could Google be removing the pages from the main index in preperation for launching a weblogs tab, or am I reading too much into this? ;)

[abates]

Any other theories? Maybe it's just been penalised in some way...

[WebGuerrilla]

"Content removed at the request of the site's publisher"

My guess would be that the site owner used the automatic URL removal system [services.google.com].

[panic]

I noticed a couple of days ago that a certain high-profile weblogging site has lost all of the snippets and caches for every single page on the site and its subdomains.

I wish that would happen to ALL blogging sites...

Could Google be removing the pages from the main index in preperation for launching a weblogs tab, or am I reading too much into this? ;)

Or maybe they would make it a subcategory of the News section. Only time will tell.

[GoogleGuy]

I think you're reading too much into a single blog site apparently using the automated url removal system. ;)