Google’s Blogger Makes Up 2% Of All Malware Hosts
Jul 24, 2008 at 9:01am ET by Barry Schwartz
Blogspot.com cited as the No. 1 host for malware from News.com reports Google's Blogger accounts "for nearly 2 percent of all malware hosts." Sophos, an antivirus vendor, published a report showing the state of malware injections and attacks throughout the web.
Specifically, hackers can set up "malicious blogs" on the Blogger service, plus they can inject dangerous web links and content into Blogger blogs.
The Google web search team takes malware attacks seriously. They have reviews in webmaster tools and they label malicious web sites in web search results. So isn't it ironic that Googl [...]
Filed in: Google: Blogger, Google: Security, Legal: Security
Google Blocks Anti-Obama Blogs Flagged Incorrectly As Spam
Jun 30, 2008 at 2:34pm ET by Danny Sullivan
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 being abused -- especially given how it says these "can't be
manipulated by angry mobs." Right now, it looks like they can.
NewsBusters
has the best write-up of the charges I've seen, covering how a number of
anti-Obama blogs received emails recently from Google saying they were
unable to pub [...]
Filed in: Google: Blogger, Google: Web Search
Google Deletes Custom Search Blog After Marking It As Spam
Aug 9, 2007 at 8:37am ET by Barry Schwartz
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 URL.
Google sent Google Blogoscoped a response detailing the issue:
Whoops! We accidentally classified ourselves as spam, and our ever-perceptive Blogger settings caught us. The Custom Search Blog has since been restored, and we’re taking steps to ensure this doesn’t happen with other Goo [...]
Filed in: Google: Blogger, Google: Marketing, Google: Security
Google Shuts Down Blogger After Threats To New Zealand Politician
Feb 22, 2007 at 9:03am ET by Barry Schwartz
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 at this time, it says "NONE" and that is followed with "No posts match your query." But the Google Cache still shows blog posts from the blog, at this point in time. More details at The Sydney Morning Herald.
[...]
Filed in: Google: Blogger, Google: Legal, Google: Outside US, Legal: Censorship
Google Blog Search’s People Search Spam Problem
Jan 10, 2007 at 8:42am ET by Danny Sullivan
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 screenshots of how the junk shows up on Google Blog
Search. My post goes into depth on the redirection and scraping that's going on.
End of story, the junk needs to step. C'mon, Google -- fix it.
FYI, here's today's latest junk out of my newsreader from just today:
United State [...]
Filed in: Google: Blog Search, Google: Blogger, Google: Critics, SEO: Spamming
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