Is Google Allowing Third Parties To Remove Live Links?
Rather than waste time with traditional methods, I pose this question to the engineers and administrators responsible for Google’s index:
Who’s Removing Links They Do Not Own? (Or altering their search results?)
It is my understanding that only webmasters can submit requests to have links removed from Google’s index. If this is so, then why was this URL recently removed from Google’s index without my knowledge (Ironically, It’s still searchable via using the entire URL — yet that defeats the purpose of search engines, doesn’t it?)
Does this mean that those with friends or “connections” at Google can, on a whim, have links of anyone’s web site they do not agree with removed? Or, was the removal (the search result anyway) the result of an unknown or published hack that Google has yet to patch, or just a glitch in the index that has yet to recover?
In any case, would the former be fair to website owners (if it weren’t hack related)? Would this mean Google is potentially skirting its link removal policies? Is this an unknown trend on the rise, or just a misunderstanding?
What’s your take, Google?
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