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Re: Bloggers take aim at Google - International Herald Tribune
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 04:04:19 -0700
________________________________________ From: Peter Moody [peter.moody () gmail com] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 11:47 PM To: David Farber Subject: Re: [IP] Bloggers take aim at Google - International Herald Tribune I'd like to point out the the blogger spam tools identified the official googleblog (googlleblog.blogspot.com) as a spam blog a couple of years ago. http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060328-011003 so that a number of political blogs would be marked as spam is not surprising in the least. full disclosure - I work for google, but I have no special insider knowledge of blogger or this particular incident (or the previous one for that matter). Cheers, -pm On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 3:42 PM, DAVID FARBER <dave () farber net> wrote:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/01/business/google.php SAN FRANCISCO: Was Google's network of online services manipulated to silence critics of Barack Obama? That was the question buzzing on a corner of the blogosphere over the past few days, after several anti-Obama bloggers were unable to update their sites, which are hosted on Google's Blogger service. The bloggers, most of them supporters of Senator Hillary Clinton and all of whom are critical of Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, received a notice from Google last week saying that their sites had been identified as potential spam blogs. "You will not be able to publish posts to your blog until we review your site and confirm that it is not a spam blog," the Google e-mail read. ... ________________________________ Archives
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