Google is trying out a pilot program to alert site owners when they are removing their site for violating Google’s guidelines. JavaScript redirects are the first trial, but they have also sent a few emails about hidden text. This is targeted to sites that have good content, but may not be as savvy about what their SEO was doing or what their SEO software and sarch engine submitter was doing.

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Google has launched two new search features designed specifically for finding information about the hurricane’s aftermath more quickly. With the ongoing help of the American Red Cross, Microsoft, Yahoo and many other organizations,Google has indexed a large number of public Katrina databases, including KatrinaSafe.com.

The new Katrina People Search helps people to search across all of these databases at once to find information on friends or family who may have been affected by the hurricane.

We also built a special search index that only returns results from Katrina-related web pages, so you can search on any keyword and know all the results will be relevant.

Click here to go to Google’s Page devoted to Hurricane Katrina.

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