A Google question...I've never seen this before

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Originally posted by CaptainJSparrow
I saw alot/ most of them last monday when looking at results at different data centers.

I saw them messing with the results then also - the only difference for me (I didnt look at anybody elses LOL) was that what they were showing back then is not whats shown now - an example (although this is a beef I have with Google right now) is that I was ranking #10 or 11 for "sex" - worldsex was right behind me, and janes guide was around #5 or 6. During that first mixing of results last week I had moved up to #5, Jane was #7 and worldsex was 10. Then this weekend they decided that "mature category" sites in the top 20 should be censored out of the results for "sex" so we are all gone and nowhere to be found for that word although I havent looked past about #300.
The funny thing is that after #20 all of the mature category sites are still there so its my opinion that it was a hand edit of some kind.
We all still rank on every other search term exactly where we were before or better, so I have to believe that Google just used their selective censoring for that one keyword - some have suggested that it was an adwords ploy - but Google doesnt list adwords for the keyword sex in the main index - only in some country indexes like the uk and au.
The other result of this is that Yahoo (which was using Google results for the keyword sex) has reverted to their own hand-edited version of the SERPs when searching from the Yahoo portal page - but only when you have 20 results set as your default LOL - its the standard entry portal setting. Interesting changes but I have to believe its something to do with Google getting ready for the "real world" of business.