Google automatic URL removal system not working

Google removal system is not working

[Kangol]

Google had penalized my site for some duplicate content. Anyway I am trying to remove some pages from my site and I see that automatic URL removal system from [services.google.com...] do not work. What is happening? Is this just a server error or Google was hit hard by lots of webmasters that want to get their duplicate pages removed?

[guddu]

When you click on automatic URL removal system provided by Google, you would get the following error :

Page cannot be Dispalyed

HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error

I have been noticing this since the last 24 hrs.

Regards

Guddu

[Kangol]

24 hours later its still not working. There are also a few pages that are not working. Things looks bad. They scrooed up lots of sites with the 302 and the duplicate content filter bugs and now this...

[zeus]

it works for me now, but I have a question Im one of the 10000 that have got hit by Googles bugs on redirecting.

If I removed my site from Google with the removal tool and waited untill it is gone, then changed the robots.txt again to allow googlebot agian, what would happen.

I have just sent the question to Googlebot also.

[edited by: zeus at 8:57 pm (utc) on Jan. 10, 2005]

[Kangol]

It works now for me too now.
I do not know if this would work. I have some subdirectories that are redirected to my main page trough 301 or 302. I am trying to remove them and get rid of this evil filter.

[trimmer80]

I have some subdirectories that are redirected to my main page trough 301 or 302. I am trying to remove them and get rid of this evil filter.

Have i missed something....is it no longer acceptable to do these types of redirects?

<edit>fixed typos</edit>

[edited by: trimmer80 at 9:55 pm (utc) on Jan. 10, 2005]

[crobb305]

Google employees need to start working weekends. That removal tool was down since Friday. And no progress is getting made with respect to other bugs/issues. They need to join the rest of the world and work irregular hours/shift work, etc to get their mess cleaned up.

[Labyrinth]

Still ain't workin' from here. Different error message (can't connect to server), but still not working.