whocalledus

4 ms·

1.
by whocalledus 12y ago
I had a sandwich shop, and the city put up a wall blocking access to the driveway from the main road. They put a pamphlet in my mailbox that said, "Pure Shit," which instructed me to stop doing things like grinding up cats, postin
2.
by whocalledus 12y ago
Do they even have official widgets or affiliate programs? I linked to them because I wanted to share the link with people.
3.
by whocalledus 12y ago
The term "backlink" isn't part of my vocabulary. I ignore Google ranking or external linking and focus on building useful or interesting things that adhere to my principles. There was nothing to clean. Lots of websites link t
4.
Google undeleted whocalled.us after a front page article on Hacker News
125 points by whocalledus 12y ago|43 comments
5.
by whocalledus 12y ago
I know what you mean, the site has also been blocked by AdSense and I've had to find the specific offending items to remove. But in those cases I think they provided me with some example links. With "Pure Spam", they've
6.
by whocalledus 12y ago
I think other sites are interfacing with whocalled.us through the HTML. I see it listed on sites like Spokeo where it shows comments, and I don't think they're using the API. Plus the site code is old, and people tend to dislike i
7.
by whocalledus 12y ago
There's a couple million phone calls reported, but there's less than a million telephone number pages for Google to index. There's 63 thousand numbers with more than 1 comment, 195 thousand with at least 1. If the problem is
8.
by whocalledus 12y ago
I'll be the first one to critique whocalled.us, and tell you all the ways it could be much better. But that is a different issue than whether or not Google should completely remove it from its search results. That page you linked to is
9.
by whocalledus 12y ago
After the first few reconsideration requests, I questioned whether they were truly read by a human. The time between request and response was often the same, but not always. Whether I wrote a descriptive formal reasoning for reconsideration
10.
by whocalledus 12y ago
Exactly. But if you search a telephone number you should be given new information, not an empty page for you to fill out. Otherwise we end up with the situation we have now, where there's endless empty pages in the search results.
11.
by whocalledus 12y ago
I chose not to list any page without at least 1 reported phonecall or comment. Competitors instead listed empty pages, and that is why they beat whocalled.us to the top results in Google, and gained much more traffic. I thought it was spamm
12.
by whocalledus 12y ago
Which website? whocalled.us does not generate or list any URL that does not have information. Empty pages were never indexed by Google. If you search Google for a random telephone number you will see a ton of empty sites who list every poss
13.
Google deleted whocalled.us for “Pure Spam” and replaced it with spam
179 points by whocalledus 12y ago|51 comments