Andrea and I spammed our open letter to Google to everyone we knew, in the hopes that we could actually get someone inside the company to speak with us. The results of this attempt were pretty wild. By the end of it, we’d spoken to the Wall Street Journal, the founder of Plumtree, and an old friend who works on the Yahoo! search product. We learned a lot about the politics of this. What an icky mess.
We never actually talked to anyone at Google, although friends had gotten our letter inside the company, and those people got the letter to whoever that person is inside Google who controls blacklisting. We were supposed to get a phone call–never did–but this morning our site’s back up on Google. I suspect they decided that just putting us back up would be the best policy, as they probably don’t want everyone and their mother thinking there is someone inside Google who will give them a phone call if their site gets blackballed…