A few months ago we had a malware attack on the site. Although we cleaned up our site, a leftover 301 redirect in our .htacess made our site disappear from google search. I cleaned it up and contacted google again to restore our site. For two weeks nothing happened. During those two weeks I kept seeing the malicious site showing as a top result for ‘totalgadha’ keyword. Our page rank had also been stolen. It was then that I started asking- Is this search really doing a good job? It is showing a malicious site in place of a reputed site. The more questions that I asked, more furious I became-
The first thing that I started questioning- and this question was popped up by my highly internet-savvy friend- is how could Google lose its search result? For years its crawlers have been surfing thousands of pages on my site. How can this data be replaced to show something irrelevant? Is this search engine so stupid? How can it wreck its own data without verifying and validating?
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