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[edited by: ciml at 10:42 am (utc) on Jan. 31, 2004]
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Wrote Lycos Customer Relations and they responded that they understand the situation and I
would be better served by directing my attention to Google.
I then emailed Invester Relations with Lycos and stated Lycos may have some invester dissatisfaction if
the problem with Google is not resolved.
All web sites from Tripod and Angelfire have been dropped from the Google index and Lycos will certainly
lose revenue from their ads on the pages.
As yet no response from Invester Relations At Lycos.
I am wondering if Lycos has recently
reconfigured a DNS server that inadvertently blocked Googlebot.
Of Course Google may be filtering these Lycos sites.
Is there anyone who can be contacted to look into this problem?
If the web site is so so important why not have a 'real' web site name, like www.mysite.com
Registration and hosting is so very cheap these days, if it is more than a 'hobby' why not have a professional sounding site name.
I personally do not think I'd buy or depend on information on a geocities, aol hometown, etc. site and I believe that would go for many others.
I personally do not think I'd buy or depend on information on a geocities, aol hometown, etc. site and I believe that would go for many others.There is plenty of good, fun, useful stuff on the web that is neither dependable or believable. Now some of it is not searchable either.
It's not impossible. As of a few years ago all Hypermart sites were excluded from Alta Vista, and I believe at one time Freeservers sites were also. Also, at one time iVillage hosted sites were excluded from the index.
That was because of abuses coming from the IP number they were all hosted on. I'm not saying this is the case here, but it has happened with search engines and if it is the case there's nothing that can be done.
For one thing, there could be a lot of automated mass submissions and in the case of Google that violates the TOS. So while I don't know, it's not impossible that that could be the case.
Registration and hosting is so very cheap these days, if it is more than a 'hobby' why not have a professional sounding site name.I personally do not think I'd buy or depend on information on a geocities, aol hometown, etc. site and I believe that would go for many others.
Ironically, if hosting and domain have become cheap .. they also cannot be trusted. With domains you are always going to come in face of www.full-words-abuse.com .. which is not the same with free sites. I have always found free sites listed in ODP trustworthy.
That was because of abuses coming from the IP number they were all hosted on.
Lots of folk are indicating in various forums they have lost their Lycos (Tripod,Angelfire) sites.
Out of 150 web pages I still have 4 Tripod and 3 Angelfire listed in google. The others have a PR but no cache. (I probably shouldn't mention it)
Could this be either an algorithn glitch or a filter or something else?
Google will not respond. I don't know whether to switch web page hosts or to wait and see if Google corrects this.
those angelfire pages should start showing up over the next several days and be back to full indexed strength pretty soon thereafter.
Thanks GoogleGuy:
Will Tripod sites also be back up? Both my Tripod and Angelfire sites are gone.
I'll be happy to check. What are the patterns? Is it example.tripod.com or example.tripod.lycos.com, or www.tripod.lycos.com/~example, or something else?
GoogleGuy:
[members.tripod.com...]
Thanks
http://members.tripod.com
That not what I am seeing - I see one eg of tripod site in this format ranking well.
