I report them for spam and google usually deletes their blog. I understand that there are some google hosted blogs which are decent. But there’s a lot more which are complete trash and harmful to people like me who rely on their websites to make a living – not just express their opinions.

From what I’ve seen Google does a pretty good job at restoring blogs which do generate their own original content and deserve to exist. Case in point John Hempton’s blog.

If you’ve got something to say which is important don’t rely on a free hosing service. It cost’s almost nothing to set up your own site!

I think the real evil here is the fact Google facilitates this nameless, free dumping ground for people to steal other people’s hard work.

How can you do it? On average, you posted ~20 articles a day for two years. Are you sure you are not spammer?

I don’t think Google cares whether your blogs are pro- or anti- Obama.

1. GetSatisfaction.com: http://getsatisfaction.com/google/topics  /dont_be_evil_google_gimme_my_blog_back _come_out_and_defend_yourself_you_big_gi ant_bully

2. Facebook.com: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id =238075071665

and

3. even on Blogspot.com: http://wrighthandblogger.blogspot.com/20 09/11/dont-be-evil-google-gimme-my-blog- back.html

Just post any article starting with Obama (add any negative or mocking by-line) and find out how quickly your site will be banned from Google. They have filters of all kinds that sus out any negative phrases that don’t match their political agenda on the far left.

We had over 15K articles posted over a two year period trashed and our site marginaizled with no direct links in google search, in less than 10 hours after we printed a satire cartoon on Obama.

Google ARE the brown shirts of today and the future!

Or just use wordpress.com – free, not evil (or at least less likely to be evil…).

http://tins.rklau.com/2009/07/blogger-an d-adult-content.html

Shorter version: Becky violated our content policy, and her blog was labeled as having adult content (which it did).

I regret the tone of the quote in the help forms (“please, knock off…”) but please note that was not from a Google employee but one of a number of volunteers who try to help address issues when they come up. I spoke with that person about how they communicate with our users, it’s certainly not how I’d like to see users treated.

@Uncle_Billy – our policy, support and legal teams routinely are called upon to manually review blogs for a variety of reasons. If they are found to be in violation of our Content Policy (http://www.blogger.com/content.g) then they will be shut down.

It was shut down by sina.com.cn last night, without any notification! And it’s very common in China. Many people have the same experience across the country.

The funniest part was Google’s response to the fact that there were so many complaints to Google about blocking the blog, especially on Google’s blogger support pages since there was no other obvious way to indicate readers’ unhappiness with Google’s action. Of course, none of the support responses dealt with the main blocking issue.

Google’s support responses were;

“I [support] am asking that you take action with your readers. There are now a dozen threads taking up space in BHF [blogger help forum], with everybody whining about this one blog…”

And another:

“But please, knock off the multi-posting. Your posts are starting to annoy the folks who help here.”

Above from one thread of posts about her blog among many: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/bl ogger/thread?tid=164b7aa43cfacad4&hl=en# all

Google effectively killed the blog and my highly linked story on Obama’s father.

No human ever responded to my pleas to put my blog back into existence.