Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?
Edit: I since looked at the MSG page linked as there first example in the OP, which was exactly what I expected based on the &quot;for&quot; comments. My original comment below:<p>---<p>Well I read a few comments here saying it was click-baity and such, and other comments pushing back hard against that saying it&#x27;s a detailed, trustworthy, researched site with citations.<p>So, I visited via an &quot;about&quot; link, then clicked through the menu to supplements (arbitrarily) then randomly to &quot;creatine&quot;: lots of links in the claim-heavy content, but the two links I followed were to definitions, not to proof of the claims being made.<p>At the head it gives a researchers name, says their work was reviewed. Looks great so far.<p>&gt;&quot;Our evidence-based analysis on creatine features 746 unique references to scientific papers. &quot; &#x2F;&#x2F;<p>Wow, I&#x27;m expecting a massive citation section.<p>But, nothing, it&#x27;s just a sales page, it doesn&#x27;t _have_ citation supported information but it tells me it sells such information ...<p>Am I missing something, people Googling &quot;creatine&quot; are looking for the info, not a sales page offering to hook them up to the info. If other sources have the info directly then that would be a huge reason that Google wouldn&#x27;t rank this examine.com site highly?<p>How many people google something looking for a for-pay resource that they, it seems, can&#x27;t even sample first?<p>I&#x27;m not googling looking for a site to sign-up with to get emailed a factsheet either, even if it&#x27;s free (which is a common fraud that I&#x27;m hugely wary of).<p>Ok, so now I&#x27;m looking at the questions, cool, click through - something about caffeine interactions with creatine, surely the link is to the cited scientific paper, nope just to another uncited page by the same person.<p>I&#x27;m not impressed upon that this is a site that should be high in google rankings; it seems low value unless you&#x27;re looking to sign up to a resource -- like if I search online for &quot;Steven King novels&quot; I actually want the list, not a link to a library I can sign up to in order to find out at some time in the future some of the novels that could be on that list.<p>FWIW the summary given was good, readable, seemed like it might be true, but there&#x27;s no reason to trust it at all. I&#x27;d rank it below even Wikipedia for the content I was presented. Whatever content they&#x27;re selling behind those pages could be incredibly good, but that&#x27;s not what SERPs are linking to so of course they don&#x27;t rank for that, they rank for the shallow sales page with the same generic info on a million other pages.