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Fresh Google Index

September 3rd, 2007 by elias.kai

A site known as Bodog.com has been offline for at least one week.(27th of August until 3rd of September)
Bodog.com is still cached and indexed by Google and even showing on Top Search Results.

I think Google should give more attention to the status of any site and take an action on it.

http://www.google.com/advanced_search?

If you remove all the uninteresting parameters from the search URL, you’ll find that as_qdr is responsible for date restrictions. For example, here’s how to restrict a search for [IRAQ] to pages first seen by Google’s crawler in the past 24 hours: (I would love to see it as for the last 3 minutes with a Fresh Ajax design)

http://www.google.com/search?q=iraq&as_qdr=d

Note that you’ll only find new web pages and not pages that were cached and updated in the past 24 hours. That means you won’t find homepages from popular sites or other frequently-updated pages. If the date range is small, you’ll mostly find news and blog posts.

The amazing thing is that you can change the value of as_qdr to custom intervals. I will list some possible values of the as_qdr parameter:

d[number] - past number of days (e.g.: d10)
w[number] - past number of weeks
y[number] - past number of years

For example, http://www.google.com/search?q=iraq&as_qdr=d10 lets you search for pages that contain “Iraq” and were created in the past 10 days.

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Bodog.com OFF NewBodog.com ON

August 29th, 2007 by elias.kai

Why did Bodog.Com switch to NewBodog.com?

Google has already indexed 44 pages but would you think this was a Link bait strategy? hmm Com’on.

Welcome to the new (temporary) Bodog. As you may know by now, Bodog.com is experiencing a technical issue impacting our players’ ability to access our website.

This is the result of a legal dispute over the ownership of the Bodog.com domain name. We are fighting this dispute. We are confident that we will win, but until all is settled, I do not want our battle to interrupt your play.

So, I present you with newbodog.com. You won’t notice very many changes: same website, same brand, same product, and same service. Just a new domain name.

We are working to resolve any remaining issues on the temporary site as soon as possible, and fully expect to have our original site back up shortly.

I sincerely apologize if you were affected by our interruption and assure you that I will update you soon.

Regards,

Calvin Ayre

But ShoeMoney explains it this way

Earlier today the Bodog website (bodog.com) went down. Many people thought it was just technical issues. A good friend inside Bodog pinged me and told me that the site was actually yanked out from under Bodog's hands earlier today.

Apparently, some guy in the US who was awarded a patent for something to do with taking bets online filed a lawsuit against Bodog awhile back. Bodog didn't respond because they are not a US company. So a judge awarded a default judgment of 50 million.

Yesterday, the guy with the judgment used it to seize control of Bodog's domain names from Enom. Almost all of their sites are now offline, and now they are going to loose all of their SERPS.