Google removed my negative review of Tanglewood Apartments
By Adam Kinder on Feb 21, 2008 in
Wow, do no evil eh? After my negative review of Tanglewood Apartments here in Manassas was published, two days later it was listed on Google as result #4 for the keywords ‘tanglewood manassas’. Today? No links at all to the article, and one content match on page nine from my homepage.
That’s pretty damn evil in my book. To date, after I publish an article I usually hit page one for obscure keywords, and then stay at least either on page one or two for months. Four days after publishing the negative review, and only two days on the front page, it was ripped from the results.
Well, nothing left to do now except take out an Adwords campaign on Tanglewood Apartment / Manassas listings. Expect to see Kinderism pop up as the top sponsered link for Tanglewood Apartments in a few days 
This happens all the time. It doesn’t mean someone at Google explicitely removed your site. It means the rankings changed as they constantly do. Even extreme changes like this, especially if the content was new when it was highly ranked.
It’s a shame, too. You’re not the type to complain without reason (unlike myself, I’ll bitch about free coffee), but honest reviews are seldom liked unless they’re glowing.