Almost as soon as I opened this weblog, I started tracking it on Google. Since I had been linked from some high traffic blogs, looking for "Paolo Valdemarin" soon gave this site as the first result. Not only, I also tried searching for "Paolo", and my position was pretty good, between 50th and 60th.

Today this site has simply disappeared from Google.

Now, not that I'm complaining or anything, but how can this happen?

More than 90% of all referrals from search engines on sites hosted on our server belong to Google or Google Powered searches. More and more people rely on Google not only for their searches, but almost as a bookmarks' replacement, I do this myself.

Having been removed from Google makes this site unavailable for a lot of people, and this is something I cannot control at all.

I feel like a character in one of those movies, removed from all public records and becoming invisible.

But worst of all, is that I don't know why has this happened. Did I trigger some obscure mechanism looking too many times for my name from the same IP address? Is there any other system that Google uses to prevent tampering with their records? I don't think that somebody from Google saw my note on Ego Surfing below and removed this site from the records (just in the case this happened: I'm deeply sorry, I didn't want to do anything wrong, please, put me back! :-).