Google searches billions of pages?but not the Bowdoin College web site.
If you have performed a Google search for "Bowdoin" in the past two months, you probably have not gotten exactly what you were looking for. Bowdoin's web site, which was judged "Webby Worthy" by the prestigious Webby Awards earlier this year, has been missing from google since the beginning of the school year and the College is still waiting for it to reappear.
The College requested that its web site be temporarily removed from the online search engine after an ethnically insensitive remark in an alum-written guide to Portland was discovered on the site in August. While the page was immediately taken down by IT officials, the language had still been showing up in Google's database.
According to Chief Information Office Mitch Davis, Bowdoin has been told that it will have to wait until Google's computers automatically re-index the web site before it will again be included in search results. Davis was unaware when exactly this would happen.
Asked if the delisting had resulted in decreased traffic to the site, Davis said, "No, not really."