Google mistakenly shuts down SA website over naked content

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• Mar 15, 2012

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Google mistakenly shuts down SA website over content

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...

 

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• Mar 15, 2012

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Google can shut down a website? How? Surely only the hosting company can do that?

 

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• Mar 15, 2012

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Dumb article makes no sense. like most others...........
Stupid a@@ publicity stunt maybe? YEP!

 

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ocleroux said:

Google can shut down a website? How? Surely only the hosting company can do that?

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I was also wondering this, but possibly he hosts with google? (google apps or whatnot..)

 

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rward said:

I was also wondering this, but possibly he hosts with google? (google apps or whatnot..)

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If i remember correctly this is that stupid site that was hosted on woza or whatever that google free small business service is called

 

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• Mar 15, 2012

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Would it make sense to post the website URL so we can see what all the fuss was about?

 

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http://naturalcleaning.wozaonline.co.za/home

 

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• Mar 15, 2012

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Yip even if your website is hosted with other hosting company Google can still block your domain from the organic search result and suspend all adwords account advertising the blocked domain

 

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• Mar 15, 2012

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And this makes news?

 

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• Mar 15, 2012

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simply he using wozaonline which managed by Google
The Get South African Business Woza Online website is managed by Google, and as such is subject to our standard Privacy Policy. Terms and conditions.

ocleroux said:

Google can shut down a website? How? Surely only the hosting company can do that?

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Nude IT technician? Do they tip as well? Maybe I should apply for a job there.

 

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Nude IT technician? Do they tip as well? Maybe I should apply for a job there.

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Let me... Plug this cable into this port... Aaaaaaaaah! There we go.

 

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BLIXEMPIE said:

Nude IT technician? Do they tip as well? Maybe I should apply for a job there.

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Semi-Nude IT tech: http://fandomscaresus.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/basementdweller.jpg

 

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• Mar 20, 2012

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gregmcc said:

And this makes news?

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Yeah coz we dont have another SA bandwidth is poor story that can be dissected into 1000 different stories saying the same thing.

 

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• Mar 20, 2012

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magneto said:

simply he using wozaonline which managed by Google
The Get South African Business Woza Online website is managed by Google, and as such is subject to our standard Privacy Policy. Terms and conditions.

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Thank you.

 

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• Mar 20, 2012

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Must be a pretty slow news day...

 

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• Dec 11, 2014

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On the topic of Wozaonline making impressions in this thread. I see that HostGator is to be their official hosting partner... So much for hosting websites in South Africa, current local users has the option to migrate to HostGator.