Google request
December 18, 2006 | In Development |I saw a piece on Slashdot the other week, a very amusing story about a chap who writes a blog. He is being threatened with legal action because his blog ranks higher than this other persons business in Google. The business has contacted him and told him to remove his link from Google.
The Slashdot article is at http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/13/160241
The chap, Dean Hunt, has written a couple of pieces and published the correspondance he has received.
http://deanhunt.com/bizzare-google-request/
http://deanhunt.com/bizarre-google-request-update
Rather amusingly, the very publicity this has generated, and the fact that I have now linked to the site, will only serve to increase the popularity and hence ranking of the site in Google.
Somewhat worryingly, this is not even the first time this has happened.