That's interesting. It wouldn't surprise me if something underhand was going on, frankly. I've heard of dodgy lobby firms using so-called "dark arts" to vanish pages from the first couple of Google search results. See:
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:05:07 -0500
Subject: Re:
From: barriticus@gmail.com
To: ryan.gallagher@hotmail.com
Oh, one more thing. As I just noted on my Twitter, our wiki page for Endgame Systems, which was the first result on subject for six months and second result for a few months prior, now doesn't come up on Google search at all. It comes up on Bing, others, but not Google. First result is now the Wikipedia page, second result is our wiki main page which lists Endgame Systems, but the actual page won't come up even if you use more specific search term like "Endgame Systems Project PM." We just noticed this this morning, and are trying to determine what happened and if Google itself might be complicit in any way.
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:55 AM, Barrett Brown
<barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
That's great to hear. Definitely keep me updated.On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Ryan Gallagher
<ryan.gallagher@hotmail.com> wrote:
Barrett,
Just to update you: I've been on the case with the videos & much background research and am putting together a couple of stories this week. They'll be published at Slate, I'm hoping within the next ten days.
Will send more details later.
Best,
Ryan
Regards,
Barrett Brown
940-735-9748
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Regards,
Barrett Brown
940-735-9748