I'm afraid Netherlands is only good for food that's over-engineered, cardboard-tasting and geneticaly modified for quantity. But that's future I guess.

The article said the country produces no GMOs. Regular size tomatoes can be lacking in flavor. But I find the small tomatoes from there delicious. Some other vegetables like peppers are pretty tasty too. It's not all bad.

I think GMO tomatoes have not been commercially grown anywhere in the world since the 1990's, at least not on any meaningful scale.

It will probably improve as time goes by.

As long as there's an incentive for it to get better. Based on my experience in the US the incentives run the other way :-(. All about cost.

I don't understand what I'm looking at here.

The stock picture looks like a character from the HBO show "Silicon Valley" without the facial hair: http://i.ytimg.com/vi/dkrzZ8-gfn0/maxresdefault.jpg

I wonder how long it would take for any other website without 15 mln backing and direct line to Google to return.

As someone who knows folks who got wrongly blacklisted.. Well, you pretty much never get back. No matter what you do.

You're lucky if you get a decent reply from customer support to begin with..

Your best bet is to change domains, fill in a redirect and try to build up backlinks again. It'll take a year or two and hopefully no competitor pops up in your space.

Or, you can try and get Andreesen-Horowitz interested in your business.

I have helped sites with over 2 million backlinks and got them out of manual penalty in under 3 months in very competitive verticals like travel & finance.

It entirely depends upon the scope of penalty. Unless you are completely deindexed from Google search results, you can always recover from a penalty.

Feel free to email me if you have any specific need.

Why?

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6956658

Thanks!