Rather, that is for a web site with vast quantities of graphic ads surrounding a very small box of celebrity-focused text content.
If it's not a landing-page advertising web site, then the site in question is certainly constructed very much like one.
And based on a very quick look, the text of the article on getting banned by Google (which is reposted on IMDB) is vastly larger than the text on the other web pages sampled.
This isn't about IMDB, it's about Studio Briefing.
And regardless of whether you consider it garbage or not, it might have had value to other people - which is why they were using it, I suppose - and it appears Google has been unreasonable in taking it off the index / shutting down the ads. Either that, or we're just hearing one side of the story.
"Either that, or we're just hearing one side of the story."
And likely that's all we'll ever hear.
Ads are bad enough, but to be de-indexed, with no way to know why or how to fix it is scary from a business point of view. It could, and does, happen to anyone.
