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Searching "3DO forums" don't show this site right away either. Why is this site invisible when it's so full of posts?

goldenband wrote:

FUJISAN wrote:Everyone, Long time no see
I also, from Google, this site was surprised gone.
But, this site was present.
I was relieved.

I am happy to see that you're back, FUJISAN!

I'm sorry in late reply
I recently busy, it was not able to come to this place.
However, this location is my play room even now!
I'll be counting on you.(^0^)/

Well, 3DO Zone is still nonexistent on Google. Are there any active admin on the site who can look into this? Has Devin completely given up on the whole domain? The CD-i side of things is a dead zone -- I registered over there and never got my account approved.

I can confirm that as of right now neither yahoo nor duckduckgo are aware of the forum's existence, either. If I hadn't saved the url in a document I would never find this place again.

And it's gone from Bing too. What the hell? Where have all the admin gone?

Welcome to the deep web.

Heh, now I half-expect to be greeted with animated Mind Teazzer and Immortal Desire CDs gliding across the screen whenever I load up the site.

So I've discovered that not only does the site not come up on google when searching for it by name, but the "site:" function of google doesn't work either. If you're unfamiliar with that function, it allows you to search for something specifically within a certain website (or in this case a forum). This is particularly useful for forums such as this one that use phpBB and therefore have limitations with the built-in search function. Just now I was attempting to search for mention of the 1.1 version of Killing Time. Which is not possible with the built-in search. But, like I said, google is borked so this is what I get from it. Sadness.

Edit: For what it's worth, it appears Bing has the exact same problem. Can't believe I actually resorted to using Bing, but I'm happy it didn't work. I'd feel dirty if it did.

I have no idea how to fix all of this. Answers to the usual address

3DOKid wrote:I have no idea how to fix all of this. Answers to the usual address

I tried PMing Devin at some point, but got no reply. Do you have a means of contacting him privately? He may be the only hope to fix this.

No. I don't know him that well to be honest.

What needs to be done? It's possible, I can do it.

3DOKid wrote:No. I don't know him that well to be honest.

What needs to be done? It's possible, I can do it.

I think the first steps would be to make sure that the Google bot isn't banned (3DO Experience had an issue with that), and to use the Google diagnostics to see why the site's been blacklisted.

IIRC Google's webmaster tools/Google Analytics has you upload a file to the site to prove you're the owner; not sure exactly how that would work here, but it might be doable. Here's a link:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/a ... 5179?hl=en

Pretty sure the normal course of action is to sacrifice a virgin to the Google Gods.