Guys, thanks for your comments. I've submitted the link as I've been outraged by this story. I find Paul's website to be a goldmine of carefully selected, beautifully written information that can save people lots of pain (well, literally...). It's hard to say what the solution to cases like this should be, but I believe until the technology gets easier to handle, there should be some sort of regulations, or companies should take the initiative of handling such situations if it's their responsibility. Search engines can't be like black boxes, there's people whose business relies on them and like someone said, I'd expect a level of automation that makes it easy to deal with such scenarios. A content creator shouldn't even worry about all this stuff at all! We are talking about a simple domain migration, that's it. The "Donate by linking" page was published only a week ago, so even though it's a good point trying to address that as well, it can't be the reason for the disaster.
Guys, this is great, thank you for putting your time into it. Any plans on creating courses based on this methodology? I found those on the Khan Academy very interesting but unless you follow the video tutorial, the console is not self explanatory as in your examples.
