I'm curious how Google notifies people about things like this... do they pull an email out of whois, or your DNS SOA? If there's nothing linking your website to a Google account, it seems like they could just make your website disappear.

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donohoe 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Many sites have setup Google Search Console and so you can be notified through that.

	▲	nubinetwork 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That was what I was referring to... if you never set it up, I guess you'll never know then?

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LoganDark 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Do they even?

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progbits 6 hours ago | parent [-]

> So imagine my surprise when I was notified that Google removed the article from its search results

You know you can just read the linked articles, right?

Edit: parent has edited their post, it used to say something like "google has never notified anyone about such things".

	▲	donohoe 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I have received notifications for stories published by the org I work at when they were delisted for certain terms. Like here, it’s people who got caught doing disreputable things and trying to cleanup their online presence.
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