Have you been dropped from Google before?

[dickbaker]

Maybe I'm just trying to grasp at straws here, but the recent tumult with Google brought back memories of the Florida update around May of 2003.

A site that I'd created 11 months earlier just fell off the earth at Google. Prior to that, it was ranking well--not great, but decently.

Two or three months after the site's disappearance, it came back, and was in the top five positions for every search term I wanted. It's still there today.

I can't help but hold out for hope that the new update will give the same results.

Did anyone else experience a similar situation in 2003?