Banned - in an e-commerce environment web pages being removed from a search engine's index

Banned - the term has a myriad of offline applications, in an e-commerce environment it normally refers to web pages being removed - banned - from a search engine's index because they have broken the search engine's guidelines or the site is guilty of spamming Although the term is commonly used in this way, being banned from a search engine is most usually referred to as being de-listed.