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Re:Why has examine.com disappeared from search results? by Scoundreller on Monday August 12, 2019 @01:21PM (#20677597)
Agreed.

I used to run a very tiny phone number directory, where I provided big company’s actual phone numbers, unlike their websites that provided everything but.

For a while, I would rank on the first page, and provided clear and quick results.

Then around 2012, they really dropped, and your search result just became 10 different pages on the domain of the corporation.

Re:Why has examine.com disappeared from search results? by usaphp on Monday August 12, 2019 @02:31PM (#20678386)
Well it kind of makes sense. I would not trust some third party website with a phone number of my bank for example. You don’t want to call someone if that number is not listed on the official website
Re:Why has examine.com disappeared from search results? by Scoundreller on Monday August 12, 2019 @03:54PM (#20679270)
Then you end up in a no-man’s land where the official website makes it hard for you to find their support number too.

Though to your point, one Canadian ISP changed its support number. And my website even recommended people print it out in case their internet goes out and they can’t look up phone numbers...