Title: Last week I posted on HN that &#x27;Google deleted whocalled.us for “Pure Spam” and replaced it with spam&#x27; (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9050343).<p>I appreciated reading your thoughts, and it made me feel better because the worst part of it all was feeling like nobody could hear my protests that they made a mistake.<p>I made 8 reconsideration requests, which are messages you send Google to ask for a human to manually review the penalty. All of them were denied with the same automated response.<p>It did not feel like any humans actually read or thought about the situation, so I felt voiceless.<p>As usual, if you make a public scene, a large corporation will often notice, and look closer at that individual&#x27;s issue. I think that&#x27;s what happened in this case.<p>I happened to notice today that whocalled.us was back in Google, and the &quot;Pure Spam&quot; manual action had disappeared. There was no notice or explanation, and it feels like someone at Google saw my post, and quietly fixed it.<p>I thought it was important to notify HN about this.<p>I don&#x27;t know how to feel about this. I already removed AdSense from the site, and gave up on it. From a shortsighted view, I should be happy, and thank Google.<p>But this experience showed me that Google has more power over my website than I do.
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