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Re:Why did ProtonMail vanish from Google search results for ... by mooman219 on Friday November 11, 2016 @07:35PM (#12935799)
We don't actually know what happened which is the hard part. They could have done it wrong, or they could have done it right but a bug caused it to be filtered in google search. Maybe some automated process deemed the new side as fraudulent. Last thing anyone wants is a new site with a similar domain stealing SEO.

Moving domains always comes with its risks.

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Re:Why did ProtonMail vanish from Google search results for ... by kleigenfreude on Friday November 11, 2016 @11:10PM (#12936542)
I think that Google removed it from their results intentionally. Google has the ability to restrict results, and for it to be weighted so highly after they "fixed" it, and because they gave no indication of what was wrong, I think the "fix" was to remove it from the blacklist.

However, it doesn't change that I use Gmail and will continue to use it. It's still the better product for the money (free).

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Re:Why did ProtonMail vanish from Google search results for ... by stephengillie on Saturday November 12, 2016 @12:23AM (#12936736)
The removal and fix need not have been so blatant - a breaking change for some sites might have been prioritized, and the fix to that break may have had other work pushed ahead of it. There doesn't need to be an explicit blocklist or clearlist in play to make some customers more important.
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Re:Why did ProtonMail vanish from Google search results for ... by luibelgo on Saturday November 12, 2016 @03:54AM (#12937165)
Not exactly free, you pay with your data
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Re:Why did ProtonMail vanish from Google search results for ... by Ph4nt0m on Saturday November 12, 2016 @05:42AM (#12937358)
Google products have one connecting line in them. They make it easy to adopt and are used to collect data. Whether it is user data or users helping in training a system (captcha, Google voice, ...)
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