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Re: Blocked Sites is discontinued by ollysb on Saturday March 23, 2013 @03:40PM (#5429443)
I think they were just crowdsourcing the pruning effort. I don't have experts exchange blocked and I haven't seen it appear in my results for months.
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Re: Blocked Sites is discontinued by brokentone on Saturday March 23, 2013 @03:52PM (#5429495)
Interesting theory, and genius if that's what they were doing with it. However, pulling it back off the market makes it look as though they failed at this.
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Re: Blocked Sites is discontinued by zem on Saturday March 23, 2013 @04:01PM (#5429535)
or that they succeeded well enough that they no longer need additional data. note from the description of the panda algorithm [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Panda] "Google Panda affects the ranking of an entire site or a specific section rather than just the individual pages on a site."
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