Google’s Blogger has literally turned into a Wild West Land of the eighteenth century, where criminals roam free and the good guys couldn’t find any where to hide. Apparently Google introduced some new fixes to control the unprecedented amount of spam blogs that are housed on Blogger Land, but the fix caused a bug in data processing and disabled dozens upon dozens of actual bloggers from logging into their account and updating it.
Google has issued an apology for the wrong doing and false accusation of spamming to its users. The fault occurred on Friday and it took till Saturday to be fully rectified.
Google’s Blogger is a den for splogs aka spam blogs and almost 70% of all Blogger blogs are spam. Blogger became such a prime real estate for spammers due to the fact that Google encouraged bloggers having an account on Blogger to use AdSense. Naturally when everyone started using it and couldn’t get the desired earnings they started cheating the system by stuffing their blogs with a lot of content irrespective of copy right and legal ownership of that content. Now Google has finally started patrolling the system, but instead of going after the bad guys, its system actually caused even more pain to the good guys.
Interesting how much care Google puts into protecting its reputation. One avid blogger has commented by saying:
Google lost my trust yesterday. They’ll have to work twice as hard to regain it due to their lack of acknowledgment of the problem.
actually, one of my sites got flagged, and it was totally legit – – and it took about a week to get reinstated!
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ouch…. some thing not good for Google, Blogger are already angry after google has acquired blogspot their has been really very slow progerss in blogger and now this issue …
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