We Have Been De-googled (IMDBs Google Adsense rejection)

This has been posted and killed once already: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=972583

This is not about IMDB, but about studiobriefing.net, which is syndicated on IMDB.

if they syndicate their content, maybe the reason for de-indexing was duplicate content (the content on IMDB would rank higher I guess).

> Not only did Google delete the Adsense advertisements appearing on the blog, but it diverted its spider from the site as we

AFAIK, these two are not related. THe adsense and web search spiders are separate.