Larry Johnson writes that a lot of Blogspot blogs opposing US presidential candidate Barack Obama had been falsely marked as spam. As you may know, Google both offers a "report a spam blog" form, and they also have a Flag Blog feature at the top bar. Larry"s theory as to what happened: "It appears that anyone who blogs with Google supported [Blogspot] is vulnerable to being shutdown unilaterally if they are targeted by a group of bloggers who claim the site is responsible for spam." Larry adds that all you need to do is fill out the spam complaint form, suggesting that "a ...
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Google Blogoscoped>>Publish Date: 7/9/2008 7:09:58 AM
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