{"id":45728,"date":"2012-03-15T07:43:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T05:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=45728"},"modified":"2012-03-15T10:26:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T08:26:41","slug":"google-mistakenly-shuts-down-sa-website-over-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/45728-google-mistakenly-shuts-down-sa-website-over-content.html","title":{"rendered":"Google mistakenly shuts down SA website over content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A South African businessman had his website shut down by <a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google<\/a> earlier this week after the search engine claimed it did not comply with regulations, according to a report on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Jean Paul Reid, the owner of a company that sold naked and semi-naked household services, discovered the site had been shut down on Monday, The Times newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p>However, his site was restored after Google realised there had been an error.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With so many pages being created, we sometimes make the wrong call,&#8221; said head of communications for Google Sub-Saharan Africa, <a title=\"Julie Taylor\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/305591-Julie-Taylor\">Julie Taylor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When a mistake is brought to our attention, we act quickly to reinstate the site,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The website was hosted by the Google Woza Online initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A South African businessman had his website shut down by Google earlier this week after the search engine claimed it did not comply with regulations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":26793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,167,9824,2268],"class_list":["post-45728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-google","tag-jean-paul-reid","tag-julie-taylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45740,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45728\/revisions\/45740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}