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This makes me curious. Let's say there was an organized mass-hacking attempt by someone like Anonymous, that took down tens of thousands of websites for severa
by steve8918 15y ago
This makes me curious. Let's say there was an organized mass-hacking attempt by someone like Anonymous, that took down tens of thousands of websites for several days. Would this affect the Google results, and how long would it take for the results to get corrected?
- freehunter 15y agoBased on my previous experience, yes it would have an effect. If it actually hit tens of thousands of websites, I'm sure Google would be willing to work with them. I'd imagine they might have backups of search results, or could nullify and re-scan the sites. Google has recently shown they have the ability to alter the page rank of various sites (ala Google+ results).
- chrisguitarguy 15y agoIt would change the rankings. I recently had a client site go down (amazon instance stopped, no notification). It was out of the index by the time we caught it day or so later. This site also happened to rank pretty well for a niche term. The good news is that as soon as the site was back up, it was back in the index within a few hours. Not sure if that's a typical experience.