[IP] Re: Bloggers take aim at Google - International Herald Tribune

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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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:
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> http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/01/business/google.php
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> 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.
>
> ...
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