Ooogle Strikes!

Could Ooogle be that corrupt?

Is it a conspiracy, or merely a coincidence? I'm split 50/50, but first let me explain what a shadow ban is and how I know it happened.

The Oasis 33 website was shadowbanned by Ooogle several weeks back, a shadow ban is when the search engine makes a site or information difficult to find, forced out of position and placed several pages back. It can sometimes be extreme, our top page listing for certain search criteria was once forced 26 pages back. I can tell it's an issue with Ooogle, because on other search engines Oasis 33 still has top page rankings from the same keyword searches.

Unfortunately for Ooogle, it doesn't really matter, anybody that's serious will find us anyways, and the website has so much traffic that at least one of our pages will show up under search criteria relating to nudity and Montana.

Ooogle restricts nudity, and nudity was the root cause of previous Shadow bans. I have found ways of posting nudity so that the Ooogle crawlers don't seem to find it as offensive. (Using a precursor before we get to the nudity, sort of like foreplay).

Conspiracy unfolds: The morning of the Shadow ban, I checked the search engine as I frequently do, using an incognito tab so it has no idea who I am, searched "Oasis 33" our website was top of the page which is normal. Top of the page on other search terms, such as nude resort, nudist resort. All top of the page as is normal.

Here's where it gets really weird!

I drafted a quick post for the website, it included a link to an expose article on Burning Man. The article was alleging BM security staff was taking lengths to conceal the number of sexual assault instances, and that medical staff at the event may not have been taking appropriate precautions to report suspected cases or to preserve evidence. The event coordinators of BM were claiming the number of sexual assaults were extremely low and BM was a safe place, the sheriff's department on the other hand was citing a very high call volume for sexual assault crimes at the BM event. It's a situation that needs further investigation. (Fortunately many qualified people and agencies are looking into it).

I posted this 2019 article because I thought it was interesting,

https://www.salon.com/2019/05/17/exclusive-burning-man-is-supposed-to-be-a-safe-space-sexual-assault-survivors-say-its-not/

A few moments after posting the above article, I double-checked our websites search rankings, I found Ooogle had Shadow banned us, almost instantly after posting the article.

Instantly it struck me as strange, the timing was uncanny, the sequence of events seemed unlikely to be a coincidence. but, I didn't know why Ooogle would have a problem with that article.

I didn't know, Ooogle had purchased the controlling interest of the Burning Man Event.

Ooogle the search engine owns the controlling interest of the Burning Man event. (Don't believe me go look it up).

Could Ooogle be that corrupt? I'm wondering if their algorithm identify the article as critical to Ooogle interests, and shadowbanned our website for posting the link.

It is conspiratorial, or at least suspiciously interesting. In fairness though, Ooogle does sometimes reorganize search criteria, to renew organic selection, for a healthy re-ranking search criteria. Possibly just a coincidence. For fun I asked Ooogle AI if sexual assaults were being underreported at Burning Man, the Ooogle AI did give a seemingly unbiased narration of the sexual assault controversy. So if Ooogle was trying to hide it, they forgot to tell their AI. In fairness Ooogle purchased Burning Man only a few years ago, long after the 2019 article. (If a sexual assault problem does exist at Burning Man hopefully Ooogle being the new owners are working to correct it).

So to test my conspiracy theory, I removed the listing from our Oasis 33 website, I did notice within a few days our web ranking had climb to a few of the original top page listings, this could have been a result of organic searches. Some of the search terms our website still has not recovered to top of the page. It is Ooogle's platform, they own it, they can do whatever the hell they want.

For some reason our website always ranks highly, during the summer we were hovering around 50,000 hits per month, and we consistently rank above the 98% on GoDaddy server for hospitality industry. Large hotel chains also use the GoDaddy server so it's unlikely we would climb above the 98%. I'm told Marriott and Hilton also use GoDaddy for some of their sites, with that in mind I'm delighted with the 98%! If the truth be told though, it's probably just people looking for nudie pictures.

Ooogle has actually banned our website from their business listings, that backfiring on them since our website generally ranks above their business listing anyways. The second time Ooogle removed our business listing they sent a threat saying that if we tried to relist it again they would terminate all of our Ooogle accounts, including our email accounts. (I would assume the Ooogle system is smart enough to connect all of our various email addresses). That's why we don't show up in the business listings, which is fine, it doesn't seem anyone is having trouble finding us. Searches for keywords relating to "nude resort montana", our website will be above the Ooogle business listings, or directly below the Ooogle business listings.

It seemed defeating when Ooogle removed our business listing, because we had put some time into it, with getting verified etc etc. (we don't want the address listed anyways, so in the end it doesn't matter). (Ooogle requires a physical business to list the address).
Since our main page shows up next to their business listings, we stand out even more..... And since people like you click on us, Ooogle Monster has so far been defeated.

Since nude recreation is such a niche industry, anyone serious and close enough to participate would devote time to research venues would find us. Ooogle or not.

I'm frequently fascinated with how many behind the scenes problems are involved with something as simple as a primitive naked park..

So that's my recent conspiracy theory (or coincidence) of the Ooogle Monster.

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