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Does anybody know what kind of filter AOL applies to Google?

They have filtered away my site!

         

yosmc

3:44 am on Mar 12, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I just noticed that AOL is filtering away my site. It's a fairly big site, with 100,000 visitors a month and a .com extension. It's #1 on Google, but AOL doesn't like it. :(

A few sub-pages can be found, but the main page simply isn't there, even when I enter the exact title. (Of course, I am using the world-wide search.)

I feel pretty helpless. Any suggestions? Do they have an AolGuy for this who could look into it?

Birdman

3:54 am on Mar 12, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I think they filter out sites hosted outside of the US, but I could be wrong. They don't push much traffic our way anyway. I remember when they switched to Google results and I thought it would be a great boost in traffic. Not!

danielm

3:58 am on Mar 12, 2003 (gmt 0)

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We are outside the US (a .org, though). I don't see any difference in the listings between AOL and Google.

yosmc

7:34 pm on Mar 12, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Well, we are hosted inside the US. I have a second site about a similar topic which is even on the same server, and they don't have a problem with that one...