Google Purges The People's Cube Worldwide

 

This is what I get when I search "thepeople'scube".



The same search in Yahoo! proudly displays thepeople'scube.com as the number one listing. Purged! blacklisted! expunged! But, The People's Cuba does sound like an intriguing site. Too bad it doesn't exist either!
 

Et tu, Sergie?
(Is Sergie a relative of Gregorie Soros?)
 

I can't wait for the new Microsoft search engine to come out! Bye Bye Google!
 

Al Gore sits on Google's Board. Maybe we should ask him what happened?
 

actually i found references to the People's Cube on Google. I typed "The People's Cube."

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Th ... e%27s+Cube

Interestingly enough, the first site listed is the Communists for Kerry store. Too bad none of the sites is the actual People's Cube.

Damn it I am out of character. Uhh, Corporate Lil Eichmann, cars powered by pot, Michael Moore, free abortions for all!!!
 

"P'sC" Comrades!

Cloak your activities and information in terms of relgion. This is the now the most progressive method of establishing the revolutionary socialist villiage utopia and will guarantee global propagation by the dissemenation-insemination (Dis'em) organ (Gooogle).
See a current example of progressive totalitarian utopia organization promoted by the the Dis'em organ:
"AL-QAEDA sympathizers are using Orkut, a popular, worldwide Internet service owned by GOOGLE, to rally support for Osama bin Laden, share videos and Web links PROMOTING TERRORISM, and recruit non-Arabic-speaking Westerners, according to terrorism experts and a survey of the sites."
http://www.sci-tech-today.com/news/
Bin-Laden-Fan-Clubs-Go-Online/story.xhtml?story_id=022002GFF5Y4
 

 

Just for the record........
It worked yesterday morning at 10AM
At 1:50PM it was gone, that's when I notified Red Square.

I suggest we all send this page link to as many op-ed newspaper departments ASAP.
 

Im sure you were banned cause someone complained to google or some lefty at google saw your sight. This is typical of leftists- rather than debate on the merits (which they can't win), they'd rather bury opposing views.

Dont worry, they won't get away with it this time.
 

Ah.....feels like the "Good Old Days"!
 

Yes, I agree Zinny....sort of like a homecoming.....how nice.
 

Better than a bullet in the brain.
 

 

 

WE are still free but not as free as others.
All is not lost, "thepeoplescube.com"can be found on Google. One must click on group, then enter "thepeoplescube.com". It is right there!

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You can still find references to the Cube on third-party sites even in regular search, nobody can remove that - but all DIRECT LINKS to the Cube in Google have been removed - and they used to be in abundance.

-- Red Square
 

Hi All

Could this be the source of sabotage?

http://www.google.com/webmasters/remove.html

In the meantime I'll be trying Alta-Vista.
 

Too bad we can't use that to eliminate Google from Google's search engine. Dogpile.com is my fav.
 

MyGooglePageRank.com lists you at zero. I have a site listed at zero too, but specific enough keywords will still bring it up in results.
 

 

Look, after hours GOOG moved 85 cents up, on news of banning thepeoplescube.com

communistsforkerry.com next to go off Google, could add another 15 cents.
 

Came over from Nice Doggie....

I used clusty search engine and you guys come right up on top!!

http://clusty.com

Run by the Vivesimo Corporation, a great little search engine that trumpets...we do not censor anything. Use them for everything now.

Gulag Google is just acting out their true ideology...totalitarianism
 

Wow, I seemed to have missed a lot....
 

What's their stoopid slogan, "Don't be evil."
 

Hey Google...Your stock is going to shit, I wonder why?
 

Comrades - Fear not!

As funding outlays were planned and offered for its initial expansion - by Uncle G.S. and the other progressive billionaires so shall their funds come to the rescue of Goooglie -if needed.
Comrade H.R.C. has ordered a massive domestic village spying program - er - rather a massive data base containing all personal information about every American using internet data mining techniques via the world wide web and pioneered and already in use by Googgoolie. So it will not go away!

Head New Economic Plans Organ USSA
 

C-Burner,

Went to Clusty's - liked it - bookmarked it.

Thanks.
 

I tried to google "Froggie went a' courtin'" and they have purged it too.
What are they afraid of? The sword and pistol he carried?
 

There are two simple soliutions to this problem:

1) Charge $200/year for "Peoples Cube Select" subscriptions, and file lawsuits against everyone else who ever looked at this site. The added income will enable you to pay more in taxes and take your mind off of Google.

2) Change the name to "The People Scuba", and limit the content to the economics of scuba diving. Basically, there would be only one article: Scuba divers should pay more taxes. But its educational value would draw enough readers to make Google notice.
 

 

Professor Kurgman writes on :

Bush, Cheney, Google vs. The People's Cube

Talk about right-wing bias.


 

When I added this weblog on bloglines, it had a number of earlier posts with hundreds of sex site links. Was Google reacting to linkfarming?

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Yes, the Cube was being spammed but those posts were always being promptly deleted until I discovered a simple antidote that ended the spam without changing the coding - a week prior to being banned by Google. The ban was not gradual but sudden and world-wide. The connection is not likely.

About Bloglines: I had noticed earlier that Bloglines for some reason retained deleted spam messages in their cache forever, even if their actual life on the site was only a second. Hence the seeming abundance of them - while the site itself was clean. That's wrong as it defeats the purpose of moderating a forum. If I don't want spam, smut, or someone's idiotic opinions on my site, why should Bloglines display them? In any event, Bloglines didn't purge me - Google did. The spam you have recorded did not reside on my server, it was sitting on the Bloglines servers.

Spammers can really drag the site's ranking down, but going down to page 20 in results is not the same as a complete blocking of the URL which is the case here. I doubt that Google would ban the actual sites promoted by the spammers.

Spammers have attacked many sites. Have all those sites been "airbrushed" out of existence by Google? If that were true, spammers would have run out of victims by now and with nothing to thrive on would be dropping dead in a ditch. But they are alive and kicking. If my ranking in other search engines didn't drop one bit, why would Google go over the top unless there was something else?

-- Red Square
 

"Be Evil"
 

"Don't do evil" is not just a slogan, Jummy - it's a warning: Don't do evil - or else! Google is morally obligated to stop you if you engage in evil thoughts as defined by their Chief Advisor Al Gore.
 

Screw Google. too many billions and not enough brains.

Have you heard about ?
 

Comrades,

I believe it is possible that our fellow Marxists in the benevolent People's Republic of China and in the progressive and forward thinking Google may have blacklisted The People's Cube in error!

Yes, I know, Comrades: The State in its glorious wisdom does not err... unless it is fooled by the clever machinations of gluttonous capitalist lackeys of the oil barons and jingoist imperialist Republicans.

Comrades, I have awful news:
The People's Cube has been gaining some notoriety on one of the most horrible internet dens of decadent bourgois backwardness: http://www.freerepublic.com!

Be strong, Comrades! It gets worse: Those bootlicking tools of class warfare have put on an increasingly vocal and convincing show of APPROVING of The People's Cube! Many of those deviants known as FReepers are passing out the URL to The People's Cube as if it were May Day candy! There is even one foul creature over there who has appropriated MY VERY NAME and is openly promoting The People's Cube with such lies as "most brilliantly caustic *anti-communist/socialist/leftist* satire I have ever seen!"

That Racist Nazi BASTARD!

Given these events, this imperialist ruse, how could our Siblings in Struggle in the PRC and Google know that this was but some foul ruse? OF COURSE they blacklisted The People's Cube. If you were so wise as to be in the Politburo, would you do otherwise?

Comrades, Kommissars, Workers all!
I implore you, in the name of our glorious and inexorable march towards socialist utopia, stand as one! Blacklist Free Republic! Proscribe them! Let us show those smug class-enemies what it is to stir the wrath of Soviet might!

Sincerely and humbly,
Comrade kingprout
 

Googles 15 minutes of fame may be up.
 

 

Google?

Giggle...

Totally pathetic...
 

that name-stealing worker-oppressing FASCIST!
 

Google you gotta love their dictatorlicious ways! We all need to buy google shares and then sell them to small african children you know it makes sense
 

see also, here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1595333/posts

an imperialist FReeper swine calling himself Jack Black is also in on it.
 

Is this where I go to hunt googlies?
 

Don't jump on Acoona just yet. Considering its owned in part by the Chinese gov't I have a feeling this site (among others) will be missing from any search.
 

good to see ya, comrade swampsniper!
 

Yes Comrades. The Revolution has begun and the bugeouis Giggle must be disintigrated. May the peoples flag wave forever.
 

Does comrade Klinton have his filthy finger in this?
 

 

Maybe you ought to put up a URL named http://www.googlesucks.com.
 

i've searched some whole phrase (with quotes included) from this site (lenin page), and google answered with a single link to this site.

maybe the things are not too bad?

the phrase was:

"Many readers have asked us how come Lenin's Earth Day resurrection passed unnoticed by the mainstream media."
 

I notice that Google is still willing to take your money.
When I just did the search, you came up on the right(har!) of the screen in an AdWords box.

Did you just start that as an in your face? Or did they ban you while still taking your cash?
 

The peoples cube DOES come up on Accoona.

http://www.accoona.com/search.jsp?qt=th ... tf-8&la=en
 

By the way, Microsoft's new search engine http://www.live.com returns thepeoplescube as #1. So use that instead..
 

note, from discussion cited above: level of purge may be influenced by what brand of browser and OS you use. I note that on my home rig (win2Kpro+2yearold IE), google did pull up references to the Cube, whereas on the office rig (winXP + current IE) gets zero results... and one fellow on that thread said his ancient IE and win98 gets all the way to the Cube on a Google
 

An overwhelming response to this story has prompted me to post this update >>

-- Red Square
 

 

I highly recommend meta engines like Ask or Dogpile or Profusion. I've been using them in place of direct engine searches since about 1999, and, although the late, lamented Infind has never been quite equalled (DAMN that was a good engine!), these are vastly above the industrial-sized shotgun blast of useless crap that is a typical Google result.

Further, they substantially reduce the power of any specific engine to restrict access with this kind of arbitrariness.

As far as Google itself is concerned, I've held them in abysmally low regard ever since the BS over Bowman's Brigade many an internet year ago.
 

Stupidity in Action!

OK..
Look at these two results:

Banned:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=& ... tnG=Search

Not banned (355 results):
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=& ... tnG=Search

Not banned (880 results):
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=& ... tnG=Search

Banned search term: "site:thepeoplescube.com"
Good search terms: "site:peoplescube.com" and "site:www.peoplescube.com"

This is merely a duplicate content, canonical URL problem.
Nothing to see here, move along.

"http://www.incendiary.ws/"
"http://www.xmule.ws/"

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Those are two different domains and the links from peoplescube.com don't really exist - it's a weird google quirk. They simply redirect to the Cube's main page. It's also really classy on your part to come here to insult us and accuse of spamming while posting spamming links to your worthless sites. I put them in quotes to remove the links.

-- Red Square
 

To fix, add the following to the very top of your /.htaccess file (or create one if it does not exist)

RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.peoplescube.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www,peoplescube.com/$1 [R=301,L]

This will properly redirect all pages to http://peoplescube.com, thepeoplescube.com, etc to http://www.peoplescube.com and avoid all the duplicate content penalties.

Your friendly SEO helper...add a link to my site please :O This is really valuable advise and most would charge you $100 an hour for it. You know? See xmule.ws for my contact info.

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I appreciate your concern. Maybe I'll do that later when the dust settles. Right now I don't want to change anything in the setup. Peoplescube.com is a separate domain run from a different server and a different hosting provider - and it only hosts the Cube's mailing list. All non-mailing list requests simply get redirected to the Cube's main page. You may notice that all those URLs in Google results do not really exist - they are ghosts created by Google's algorithmic imagination.

-- Red Square
 

At least we can still access NAMBLA ad nauseum from google's search engine.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Nambla
 

 

Some of the pictures at my site have been censored by Google Image Search -- the ones depicting Michael Moore were removed about a year and a half ago.

I agree with the poster who likes the new search engine .

Two things to remember:

(1) It has two "c"s, not one
(2) It has three different search buttons. Make sure you press the "web" one to get the Cube.
 

To spell out more clearly,

ONLY MULTIPLE DOMAINS OF THIS SITE HAVE BEEN REMOVED

BECAUSE OF OPERATOR ERROR

GOOGLE STILL RECOGNIZES "peoplescube.com" AND THUS IS NOT CENSORING THE DAMN WEBSITE

THIS COULD BE FIXED IN A MATTER OF DAYS BY ANY COMPETENT Search Engine Optimizer, of which I am one of the most affordable.

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You may be the most affordable but not most competent.
There have never been multiple domains. I explained it already earlier. There's never been duplicate content. Peoplescube.com is a separate domain that host our mailing list. Ever heard of "page forwarding"?

-- Red Square
 

As it turns out, that's youth-oriented just like its partner in crime, Al Gore's Current. The new service is called Google Current and the two companies are now promoting one another while endlessly scratching each other's backs.

As suggested, maybe Al Gore's people at Google Current TV can find out for us what happened to The People's Cube and report back.
 

um, try removing the hidden text from your site and you might get back into Google. Sneaky SEO stuff will only work for so long before the smart search engines (ie Google) catch you.

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Dear Comrade Rich (if that is your real income bracket)
Please point out where on the site you spotted hidden text and I will remove it.

Respectfully,
Red Square
 

Red Square,

Good job blaming Google when it was really your own fault. Here is the proof you requested showing the hidden text on your website.

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advic ... -own-site/

Respectfully laughing at you,
Tyler Hall
 

Wow, it's kind of amusing that somehow all the Google haters who were flooding this board suddenly have nothing to say. Oh how we hate to admit that we are wrong...
 

 

Actually, sites get removed from the index daily for things like hidden text. My guess is that someone that doesn't like you reported you to Google and poof! If you go out and find real estates doing the same thing, and report them, there is a good chance they'll be removed too.

Matt Cutts is an engineer at Google and somewhat a spokesman for them in the webmaster community. I don't think he'd post that on his site without Google legal taking a look and making sure his information was correct.

Even if you did remove them days ago, it may have already been crawled and in the process of being removed. It can take a week to have new changes cross over all their datacenters. The site broke the guidelines they have and someone reported it. If it's fixed as you say, send in a re-inclusion request and all should be fine.
 

While we are on the topic of hidden keywords and links on your site, would you care to explain why most of the hidden links on your site (that you now oh-so-cleverly removed) came from a web design portfolio of this company -- http://www.sitexpress.net/ ? Looks like you are trying to boost the rankings of completely unrelated projects by creating hidden spam links to them...

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Let me see... Because sitexpress.net is MY OWN design and hosting business?

Google also places unrelated links on its pages. And sometimes does not display those that are relevant. Oops...

Red Square
 

You got seriously busted. LGF already has a retraction:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/ ... _Cube&only

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It's not a retraction, it's a fraud: one of you made LGF post a "balancing" link without disclosing that its source comes from someone who's on Google's payroll. But what else could one expect? See more below.

-- Red Square
 

Actually, it's a great self-promotion strategy: first, do something clearly against the rules to get Google to remove you from its index, and then shout about it to all the conservative pundits who are day-dreaming about exposing someone not-conservative-in-their-view in a negative light. They all post links to your site, and voila, you have thousands of visitors.

Unfortunately, without any good content, you'll be forgotten as quickly as you were found.
 

Hello,

Have you considered the fact that you appear to be using some underhanded seo tactics and may well have been removed for cause. Looking around that seems to be what has happened.

According to Google you can be "removed from our index, because it did not conform with the quality standards necessary to assign accurate PageRank. We will not comment on the individual reasons a page was removed and we do not offer an exhaustive list of practices that can cause removal"

What you seem to be forgetting is you do not have a 'right' to be included in their index and they have every right in the world to remove you regardless of your 'conspiracy theories'.

Sure they do......but that disclaimer "We will not comment" says it all.
It might not be restraint of trade either.

Laika
 

@Red Square
I am certainly not a left wing person, but as someone who often work with Search Engine Optimization, I have to say I see this often. I certainly don't buy that google does no evil, but sometimes we got to get a wider perspective on these things before coming to a conlusion.

I don't think your site was singled out, google does not find all spam or keyword stuffing issues at once, but when it does then often its banned until the problem is fixed.

I have a Christian website, and it has ranked number one in google for a number of years. Once it disappeared from the index. I am not sure why, but after checking over my site, and sending an e-mail to google a short while after it returned. My site has ranked number one for a number of keywords. I don't think it's a conspiracy, it's just that google's tools will catch certain things at times that may ban or lower the ranking of your site. I suspect that other sites that claimed google banned them for political reasons, that most were banned for similar google webmaster guideline issues.

Ask other webmasters out there, sometimes your site may be banned, while another site having spam is not. Yes, it's frustrating, but it's not a conspiracy, it's simply google caught one site and missed the other. In time, google will catch the other sites also. Some sites with keyword stuffing may go ranking well for a long time, and then all of a sudden it gets banned. If you follow Matt Cutt's blog you'll see theis issue comes up often.

You made a point about google defiency in not factoring meta keywords. This is a double edged sword. If google should accept keyword stuffing, the quality of search results overall may decrease - try to see this from google's view.

Finally, you made a point that earlier other suggestions were made for why the site was banned, and then wander what else will be stated. But you're not realizing that Matt Cutts is a google employee that works on website spam issues, you're getting the word from the person who would know. He is responding to your open letter - so basically, most likely that's the problem - (he has screenshots, and have posted on similar issues before for other websites)

Follow Matt Cutt's suggestions(http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advic ... -own-site/)
, and if you site does not return within the next 30 to 90 days, then you have all right to call it a conspiracy.
 

Talk about intellectual honesty and removing "incorrect" posts -

Your Matt Cutts or whoever manages the blog had just removed the most reasonable comment under his own post - but - voila! - I still had the window open and made a screenshot of it.

Click on it if you want to see a bigger image.


Now, why would they do that, hm?
 

Wow, Red Square, you are seriously sleazy.... And the fact that you removed the comment with the link to the cache makes you even less credible.

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I removed your trolling attempt with factual inaccuracies and an oversized link that distorted the entire page. Everything you wanted to display was already posted by Matt Cutts - who himself had just deleted the smartest post on his entire thread.

Why would he do that unless his purpose was to do damage control for his paying bosses at Google? Talk about credibility. And who exactly are you, Mr. Dragon?

But the fact that you people are now sending "retractions" without identifying Matt Cutts as a Google employee undermines your credibility like nothing else.

Looks like there is a concerted campaign, with several people monitoring different sites simultaneously, posting and emailing disingenious retractions non-stop, and immediately sharing information. Are you guys all sitting in one room? And is that room by any chance located at Google headquarters?

-- Red Square
 

 

Perhaps you jumped to conclusions too quickly on this one... or maybe this was deliberate... hmmm.