Google Purges The People's Cube Worldwide

thepeoplescube.com ^ | 3/10/2006 | Red Square

[ordinaryguy]

Lots of sites are experiencing things like this right now with Google. It may have to do with their new 'Big Daddy' infrastructure.

It really does demonstrate how much power Google has, though. If you've based your business on Google traffic, these things can keep you awake at night.

[the anti-liberal]

You're very welcome - now if enough people do this maybe google and others who would do the same (including yahoo) will take notice.

For those of you with Firefox, here are links to add alltheweb and clusty to your search bar.

[the anti-liberal]

And here's a link to hack that "Allows uninstalling search plugins - just right click on a search plugin and choose 'Delete'":

Firefox Extension

[Restorer]

Google doesn't give "ad space" away. They sell it. Why not contact them and see if "Winchester" is available for you to purchase click-through advertising on?

Maybe nobody has purchased advertising for this word.

[the anti-liberal]

Interesting.

When I was reading the open letter, here posted, the address in the 'address bar' was 'http://www.thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=637'.

They're back, btw.

[processing please hold]

The clutzy one looks good. Do you use it and is it ok? I'm sick to death of google.

[jdm]

"What is "ThePeople'sCube"? I've never heard of it."

[DBrow]

Point was, type in "beretta" and get no paid-for google ads. Type in "nikon" and you get ads. Type in Foxy Methoxy and you used to get ads for Duncanlabs, RACResearch, Omegafinechemichals and a dozen others.

My understanding is that google does not accept ads for firearms, part of their "do no evil" philosophy.

I was contrasting that in my post with their ready acceptance of paid ads for potent dope like tryptamines and phenylethtlamines- which were OK to the "do no evil" company until their customers got busted.

[Rocko]

What is "ThePeople'sCube"? I've never heard of it.

One of the better parody blogs around.

[the anti-liberal]

clusty is good - and so is alltheweb, I tend to use alltheweb more often, but usually which ever is on top in my search bar. I've completely removed google from Firefox, and haven't missed it at all.

If you're sick to death, then good God man, switch before you die!

[Slainte]

Google hasn't done a very good of implementing this particular memory hole. While they whacked thepeoplescube.com from the index, a search for "thepeoplescube" (no .com) still turns up 16,500 results, and it is unlikely that someone slipped and accidentally typed 'thepeoplescube' on their gardening blog when they meant to type 'cucumber.'

It'll be interesting to see if those 16,500 results that mention the site start dropping from the index as well.

[the anti-liberal]

Thanks for pointing me to http://www.acoona.com, I'm going to add it.

[processing please hold]

I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna try doing it. Me and computers are not very compatible.

[the anti-liberal]

Hmm. Do any of those 16,500 results actually point to 'thepeoplescube.com'? In any case, I never use google, so I'll not be seeing what happens with this. "Out of site, out of mind", heh heh...

[the anti-liberal]

Do it as if your life depended on it! ;^)

After a while, you'll not miss google at all. I sure don't.

[zeugma]

I just went to google and noticed the google graphic was different from what it usually is, so I clicked on it. It took me to Google Mars.

It's like Google Earth, but with less buildings and roads :-) 

 

[Palladin]

Thanks for the Clusty link. I like the way it is organized.

[SkyDancer]

That's why I use Dog Pile, Copernic, and other search engins. I'm deleting Google from my computer.

[the anti-liberal]

I tried dog pile, but most of the searches include google and yahoo returns. In effect, by using dog pile, you're using both google and yahoo at the same time.

Ergo I don't use dog pile. But that's just me...