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Google Page Removal Bug
May 15, 2004

According to the statment below, Google is admitting to a "page removal bug" which caused sites to be removed from its index through its "page removal tool".

Good thing this was fixed. Could you imagine what companies could do to competitors?

"We can confirm that less than 10 websites were inadvertently removed from Google's index for several hours [Thursday]. All of these sites have been restored and are accessible through a Google search. The removal occurred as the result of an outside attempt to abuse Google's automated web page removal tool -- a free service we provide webmasters who would like to remove web pages they own from Google's index. Upon discovering this bug, we fixed it immediately. We will also perform a thorough analysis to ensure additional web pages were not inappropriately removed."