Some site publishers in the Middle East believe Google struck a controversial picture of Egyptian striker Mohammed Aboutrika from its index, but Matt Cutts said that never happened.
Google may be a lot faster at indexing web content these days, so much faster that people have become spoiled and expect search engines to have items instantly in their databases. When Aboutrika displayed a "Sympathize with Gaza" message on a t-shirt under his jersey during the African Nations Cup, some searchers hit Google to find a photo of that.
Evidently their failure to find it immediately led to complaints of censorship and undue Israeli influence at Google.
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