Hi all, Im up into the night watching Googles actions and it looks like Australians are really sweating it at the moment. Every .com.au domain has been removed form G's index. It happened about 3 hours ago. The entire country is gone from Google. Search for all domains with a .com.au in the domain name: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...allinurl:com.au Nothing! Look at the PR for this one: http://www.news.com.au/ Nothing! I really do hope this is an April fools joke. Otherwise I feel sorry for Australians.
Checked it again, still nothing. I bet SEO's are being woken up, this could be serious if it doesnt change quick. Anybody know what is going on?
wow...that i bad.... what other countries are on the radar ? maybe Nigeria since they are famous of scam mails.
They are still out. I just got an e-mail from a buddy and there is panic. Im glad I dont have any .com.au's.
ok seems to be fixed now but the page rank is still missing. That was weird, it was out for about 3 hours.
Well Google.com.au still exists. I have received 7 referals from google.com.au and my host is only two hours into Friday and I received 13 visitors on Thursday which was Friday in Oz. She'll be right, mate.
It may have been an update glitch. On searchenginewatch someone was saying they called Google/AU and the rep had no idea it happened. 20 minutes later everything wa back up.
I wonder what the cost to the Aussie economy would have been? 3 or so hours off google....? That is pretty significant to some businesses: if it was 3 hours that's 12.5% of a 24hr day or 37.5% of an 8hr day of traditional business hours.
If that was an April fools it was a pretty unfunny one, I wonder how much money some people lost! A glitch would be a little more forgivable!