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Jun. 30, 2008 at 2:34pm by Danny Sullivan
Google Blocks Anti-Obama Blogs Flagged Incorrectly As Spam
My day started reading about how Google was reportedly censoring anti-Barack Obama blogs by shutting them down on Google-owned Blogger. I quickly did some debunking in a comment on our Sphinn site -- but still, Google probably needs to do more to ensure its Blogger spam reporting tools aren't...
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Aug. 9, 2007 at 8:37am by Barry Schwartz
Google Deletes Custom Search Blog After Marking It As Spam
Google Custom Search Blog Hacked? from Google Blogoscoped quickly reported what appeared to be a hack of Google's official Custom Search Blog. But what really happened was that Google marked their own blog as a spam blog and ultimately removed the blog from Blogger, allowing someone else to claim the...
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Feb. 22, 2007 at 9:03am by Barry Schwartz
Google Shuts Down Blogger After Threats To New Zealand Politician
Google axes death-threat blog at The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Google finally shut down CYFSWATCH New Zealand blog after numerous complaints from governmental officials in New Zealand. The blog, hosted on Google's Blogger service, reportedly wrote a death threat against a New Zealand politician. When you access the blog...
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Jan. 10, 2007 at 8:42am by Danny Sullivan
Google Blog Search's People Search Spam Problem
Last month, I wrote Public Spam/Splog Report over on my personal blog, begging Google to stop the "people search" spam that's been clogging my Google Blog Search feeds with junk off Google's own Blogger service. Today, I noticed Steve Rubel writing recently on the same issue. Steve gives you the...
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Dec. 20, 2006 at 10:46am by Danny Sullivan
Google Pushing New Blogger In Search Results
Now that Blogger is officially out with a new version, I guess Google's ready to get behind the service in a big way. The screenshot above shows a new promotional "tip" I just got in my web search results. I've never seen anything like that before for Blogger nor...
