The Times and Google: what’s going on?

Mystery as all Times content disappears from Google and then returns.

15:40 UPDATE: TimesOnline has now returned to Google’s index. Jaamit Durrani reports that the Times’s SEO team are citing technical problems but, as he argues, this isn’t convincing. How could a technical error remove an entire site from Google’s index? I think it’s safe to assume this was a dry run.

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