Google.com banned... from Google Search

Oops.

One of the major search engine has found out what happens when you break Google's rules - the hard way - a total ban.

The Google.com website has apparently tripped Google the search engine's automated quality filters (aka the Spam filter).

The result - a search for www.google.com results in the ominous "no information" message:

Sorry, no information is available for the URL www.google.com

Find web pages that contain the term "www.google.com"

This result is reserved for domains not in the index - either because they are new, have no incoming links that Google has found, or they've been removed from the index.

Other functions, such as the site:google.com (which would normally bring up their "all about google pages") are equally banned.

A search for web pages that contain "www.google.com" pulls up Google's other TLDs (www.google.co.uk, for example - with the appropriate PR etc).

Can't wait to see some sort of statement about this, but of course, with the Google IPO looming imminent, that may not happen.