Seems that Google has dropped a bazooka on Reliance ADAG’s social networking portal BigAdda. When you search for ‘Bigadda’ in the big G, the only result from the site that shows up is Amitabh’s blog as result number 2. Other than that, I could’nt find a single search result till at least the 3-4 page.
See below (click for bigger photo):
See Quantacast’s graph of US traffic to BigAdda – shows a huge dip in traffic. Probably they were penalized or G is revamping their index – what ever the reason, that’s one huge whammy that can give any website nightmares.
Hat tip and more on Gaurav’s blog.
They still do have some pages in the index so not completely dropped
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Abigadda.com&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
However very few .. I think they are only focussing on BigB’s blog
Pranav,
Thanks for the mention. Big B’s blog wasn’t there in Google index when I wrote my post.
dude.. they have 5k pages in the index.
here is the right way to check
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=site:bigadda.com&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
BigAdda has not been dropped. You may got some ridiculous results because of your search habits. Google doesn’t show everyone exactly the same results for the same keywords/phrases.
Also, Google limits the no. of results that can be show at a time from a particular domain or subdomain. If you need to really confirm, Google with “site: bigadda.com” and you will see hundreds of pages.
The reason one may have seen only Big B’s page is because of its high popularity as compared to other pages.
@COP @Rohan,
the pages might be in the index, but if they dont appear in the search results way up high, whats the use ?
Besides, common users dont search for keywords with the site:bigadda.com
They’ll just enter the keyword bigadda and hit enter.
BigB’s blog page is popular and what about the home page of the site itself ?
A further deeper digging reveals that
1) bigadda.in is using the name “BigAdda” as a trademark.
2) The TOC of the site talks about a company named “BigAdda Inc”
3) The owner of the site is *possibly* also a promoter of porn..
The post based on further digging.
dinesh,
the post was about bigadda.com — wondering why the observations about bigadda.in ?
I personally don’t like BigAdda, I wouldn’t care even if it disappeared from the web.
hee hee..
lot of us would echo the same sentiment rizwan..
This is a big blow! Google is the GOD of internet. Wonder why they got pissed off. If you type John Chow in the internet, you will not find a single relevant link. The reason being that John Chow was selling links. Maybe Bigadda was spamming or tried some blackhat SEO techniques.
It could be that the google fellars were afraid that Big Adda, being a local player might get the audience away from the jaded orkut.
What ever the reason, this indeed will turn out to be a death blow if not remedied quickly!