Google gets evil
http://www.fleshbot.com/sex/google/google-spanks-the-little-guys-224675.php
Google Spanks The Little Guys
Dude, where’s our porn? Or our sex blogs? It used to be that if we
searched for sites like Eros Blog, Pretty Dumb Things, Good Vibes,
Comstock Films, and (our own) Tiny Nibbles and Violet Blue, we’d get
each of these sites in the top rankings or on the first page of
results (SafeSearch off, natural results). But no more: apparently
Google has been changing its search algorithms over the past few
weeks, dropping many popular sex blogs and independent adult sites in
the process. It seems to have coincided with certain changes they
made relating to their keyword ad program AdSense, though the website
for respected sex toy retailer Babeland was dropped first (and hard)
before the holidays. Interestingly, searches for more
“mainstream” (and big-business) sex and porn-related sites like Adam
and Eve or Vivid (and Fleshbot, for that matter) turns up the
expected results�but now all we get are secondary links and spam
(splog) results when we search for the indie players on the sex blog
scene, a development that cuts into their traffic and revenue. We
just have to wonder, is this all part of Google’s new abstinence-only
program? -V. Blue