My Grey Cells Burning

Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Did Google censored me?


I had just revamped the previous Blogger theme which seem cluttered (sakit mata woo!) to something simple (and not cluttered!) which anyone can see right now. Grabbed the source code from here (thanks!) and tweaking the numbers on the variable values (border, cellspacing and cellpadding) to create those lines for the banner and that's it. Look 3D on 2D enough for me. I like the finished result and well, keep it that way for now. I will modify and perhaps enhance the template later when I got the time.

Okay. Move on to feedburner and start syncing with their server and works alright. Feedvalidator also does not complain much like before (previous cluttered template).

Querying at Google on "install configure metasploit 3 ubuntu feisty" showed my site in the top list. Cool with that and it lasted for only 2 days before I repeat the query at Google and found out that my site is nowhere among the first Top Ten like before. Weird. Resync my feedburner does not give any effect at all. I wonder....

Start on Yahoo search still show my blog in the top ranks. Still look okay on Yahoo but not on Google after 2 days. Makes me wonder....

Did Google censored me?

Are they start censoring 'hacking' material now?

From ittoolbox.com:

"While we start with the small cry today that I can no longer find particular file types, my fear is that this will extend to other fringe issues, like censorship of the security engineers voice, or censorship of security techniques, censorship of hacking methods security folks need in the course of their duties, and censorship of viewpoint as to the validity of a hack."

Update!! (1st August 2007 afternoon around 3-4 p.m)

Today search with the same keywords reveals my site back AGAIN in the top list at Google. And no change on Yahoo which shows that they're much more consistent on their policies?. This happened a day after I posted my suspicious feeling on Google censorship. Makes me wonder.... Anyways, thanks Google, for quick 'reply'?

Update!! (1st August 2007 21.33 p.m)

Querying Google on the same keywords now resulted in none of my pages displayed in all search hits pages while Yahoo still put me in the top list. In other words, Google.. mostly you're great, but in this case, I think you guys suck.

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posted by zarxcky @ 7/31/2007 03:41:00 PM   0 comments
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