GoFundMe removes search link to Goncalo Amaral legal defence fund page.

[jassi]

So the first place to look is where the page is controlled.

Isn't that some corporate giant, somewhere?

I believe the problem only arises with Google and that other search engines return the address.

[Miss Taken Identity]

Isn't that some corporate giant, somewhere?

No, It will be stored on a server. You can just remove the source code or overwrite it.  Some one will probably try it lol...It isn't difficult. However it may be protected. 

[Miss Taken Identity]

The google link may have gone, bit the site still remains.  https://www.gofundme.com/Legal-DefencePJGA

Google do charge placement in their search engine, have done for quite a while.  If you want your company to be the first on their search list, you pay the man the bucks!

Also, pressure to have their name removed from sites can be requested for  whatever reason... I have the xml code to embed google search in web pages.  whoo hoo !

[mercury]

Who's tampered with the account page so search engines won't pick up the link, and why?

Who said it was "tampered with" as opposed to a deliberate legitimate action for reasons unknown
You are saying you do not understand why or who but are quick to say Amaral is going to take the money and run aka Benny Hill, you haven't really thought it all through have you? as he would be jeopardising / destroying support wouldn't he, and he still has to pay his lawyer, so what kind of any sense does that make?

Or is it a case of, it sticks in your craw for some reason, that he has had moral and financial support, in a very transparent request for donations, for his legal appeal,and before even a year is out you are asking for accounts?

Normally people question things when they have sound reason to, not extrapolating ther own prejudices into the imagined present or future
!!

[Mr Gray]

Google do charge placement in their search engine, have done for quite a while.  If you want your company to be the first on their search list, you pay the man the bucks!

Also, pressure to have their name removed from sites can be requested for  whatever reason... I have the xml code to embed google search in web pages.  whoo hoo !

no...google charge when searchers are searching for the same key words....there is no pay per click charge for amaral gofundme

[misty]

Who said it was "tampered with" as opposed to a deliberate legitimate action for reasons unknown
You are saying you do not understand why or who but are quick to say Amaral is going to take the money and run aka Benny Hill, you haven't really thought it all through have you? as he would be jeopardising / destroying support wouldn't he, and he still has to pay his lawyer, so what kind of any sense does that make?

Or is it a case of, it sticks in your craw for some reason, that he has had moral and financial support, in a very transparent request for donations, for his legal appeal,and before even a year is out you are asking for accounts?

Normally people question things when they have sound reason to, not extrapolating ther own prejudices into the imagined present or future
!!

Did I say it was Amaral who was going to take the money & run?

[Miss Taken Identity]

no...google charge when searchers are searching for the same key words....there is no pay per click charge for amaral gofundme

err Yeah... just said that!  pay for placement!!

If your company is called zebra hair studio and you pay a fee to google, they can arrange for your address to be at the top or near to top depending on what their charges are.  DUH.

[mercury]

Did I say it was Amaral who was going to take the money & run?

Who then??
You better have good reasons

[pegasus]

The page will soon also be not listed in Bing and Yahoo search results.

[jassi]

In that case here is a reminder of the website for those of a mind to use it- https://www.gofundme.com/Legal-DefencePJGA

[Alfred R Jones]

In that case here is a reminder of the website for those of a mind to use it- https://www.gofundme.com/Legal-DefencePJGA

Thanks, must remember to make my weekly donation.

[Alice Purjorick]

In that case here is a reminder of the website for those of a mind to use it- https://www.gofundme.com/Legal-DefencePJGA

I suppose bookmarking a site is an unknown concept and it's much more fun to dream up wild conspiracy theories about "now you see it now you don't".
Anyone for a shell game?

[Montclair]

If I just write "legal fund gonçalo amaral" on my phone, the site is the first to show but not when I do it on my computer. However, if I write "gofundme.com/legal defense gonçalo amaral" on google in my laptop, it is the first on the list.

[mercury]

McCann fury as new libel cop case begins
INTERNET trolls are backing a court challenge to Madeleine McCann’s parents.
   
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By Jerry Lawton / Published 5th October 2015
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TROLLS: Internet trolls are backing a court libel case against the McCanns
They could help to strip the couple of £357,000 they hope to use to find her.

Ex-police chief Goncalo Amaral, 56, has been flooded with nearly £50,000 in public donations since he lost a libel hearing against Kate and Gerry McCann six months ago.

The GoFundMe webpage donors include trolls who have abused the McCanns online.

 
GETTY
MADELEINE: Kate and Gerry are 'exasperated' by this new court case
“Kate and Gerry are exasperated”
A friend of Kate and Gerry McCann
Three appeal court judges are expected to begin re-assessing the evidence on Wednesday.

If they find in Mr Amaral’s favour the damages award will be quashed.

A friend of the couple admitted they were “exasperated” by the appeal and the source of its funding.

GETTY
The pal said: “Some of the people who have donated money to this have said the most appalling things on the internet even though they know nothing about the case and have no direct involvement in it.

“It seems strange indeed these people may be indirectly able to influence civil court proceedings. Kate and Gerry are exasperated.”


Does anyone here know what the PAL means by that last sentence? And are they perchance a sandwich short of a picnic?

[misty]

The page will soon also be not listed in Bing and Yahoo search results.

As you correctly predicted, the page is no longer directly linked in list on Bing & Yahoo results.