Comments on: Will Google Kill Comstock Films?

By: Why does the Google index of my blog stop on Dec. 27, 2006? | The Art & Business of Making Erotic Films

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:37:41 +0000

[...] the last post in Google’s index of my blog is my post from Dec. 27, 2006 “Will Google Kill Comstock Films?” That’s two years of blogging and something like 300 posts missing from Google’s [...]

By: Taking the real sex out of real sex searches (is the googlebot erotophobic?) | The Art & Business of Making Erotic Films

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:44:20 +0000

[...] Long time readers already know that our company has had an on again/off again relationship with Google. Back in late 2006 we broke the Christmas shopping season googlebug story with our post “Will Google Kill Comstock Films?” [...]

By: The Google Conspiracy | SugarBank

The Google Conspiracy | SugarBank — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:48:54 +0000

[...] Then the December purge took effect, almost exactly a month after the November purge (connection?), and remained in place long enough for Tony Comstock and Violet Blue to write up, Boing Boing to reference, and me to check. Then, the day after Boing Boing published, everything returned to normal once again. [...]

By: Real Talk About Making Real Sex Films » Blog Archive » Google’s Matt Cutts want to know more about sex.

Sun, 31 Dec 2006 20:09:15 +0000

[...] I hadn’t realized it until a couple of days ago, but Comstock Films had a celebrity visitor comment on my Will Google Kill Comstock Films post of a few days ago. [...]

By: tony

tony — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 01:54:43 +0000

Thanks all for stopping by and leaving comments. Replies in the following post.

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:35:30 +0000

Halfdeck’s advice is solid, but we also try to keep an eye on the blogosphere for issues to check out. I heard about this one from several people who read blogs, for example.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 16:50:21 +0000

“Let’s not turn every technical problem into a crusade.”

Agreed. It’s interesting that of the five or so articles that described this “phenomenon”, none of the authors actually tried to contact Google. It was up to “teh big bad evil corporation” to go to the bloggers’ sites and comment (see above).

By: Sex Blogs Tank in Organic SERPs Over Christmas » Half’s SEO Notebook

Sex Blogs Tank in Organic SERPs Over Christmas » Half’s SEO Notebook — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:58:30 +0000

[...] Just an early morning post about a Boing Boing post titled Google “disappears” sex blogs? Something’s broken. For the main dish, you can go read their post, but I did find an interesting trail left by Matt Cutts on Comstock Films comment section, dated Dec. 27, 2006: Hey, I’m an engineer at Google. I just wanted to say that different people at Google saw this and were asking about it, so we’ll check out these reports from the sites such as tiny nibbles and others. [...]

By: Halfdeck

Halfdeck — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:23:37 +0000

Let’s not turn every technical problem into a crusade.

Write a post in Google Webmaster Help.

http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help-Indexing?tsc=1&hl=en

By: Inquisitor

Inquisitor — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 13:15:58 +0000

For what it’s worth, a Google search on “comstock films” now brings up Comstock Films, as it does for the other websites mentioned in the Boing Boing post.