June 5th, 2007 by James Omdahl
Ok, note to self - don’t mess with the Google.
After yesterday’s post on Google indexing a competitor’s site incorrectly, I came into work and saw this:
That’s right - InsureMe has been indexed incorrectly! OUCH!
From what we can tell from the cache date, Googlebot hit our site right in the middle of some late night database issues and the end result was Google getting served an error page.
Needless to say, it’s a bit embarrassing.
[Bonus link: There is an awesome story in the New York Times that talks Google's search team. Definitely worth a read.]
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June 6th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
We didnt have anything to do with it!
June 6th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
LOL! We know you didnt…we love yall.
Did you ever figure out what happened to your site? Was it a server error on your side?
June 6th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
Same thing as you guys. Regular database maintenance at 4:12 in the morning and they caught our error page. That Google bot never seems to sleep does it? Someone get that thing some Tylenol PM quick!
June 7th, 2007 at 8:22 am
Ha ha - I wonder how many Tylenol PM it would take to put that sucker to sleep.