BlogSpot Says No To MSN Search?
A BlogSpot blogger claims that he received an email from Google saying that the MSN Search box he had placed on his blog violated Blogger’s Terms Of Service. The reasoning was that the box was “obstructing Googles services from operating efficiently and effectively”. The blogger, Roberto Dohnert, was told to remove the search box, and plans asking Google the question on everyone’s mind, “What the hell are you talking about?”
I find it hard to believe Google has an official policy against using non-Google search boxes. I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt that this was just an oversight, and that we’ll see this whole thing just dissapear. I hope.
(via Digg)
UPDATE: The entire blog has vanished from Blogspot. You can read it in the Google cache. That either screams “scam” or really bad situation. Considering the blog has archives going back to June 2004, I’ll let you draw whatever conclusions you’d like until we hear more.
UPDATE 2: Looks like he moved to Wordpress.com hosting. Gee, this is a great endorsement for BlogSpot. (via Sean-Paul Kelley > Findory)
[…] Eso es lo que reporta un usuario de Blogger, el servicio de publicación de blogs gratuito de Google. Aparentemente, recibió un email desde Google diciendole al usuario que infingía las normas, por la causa ya mencionada. Luego, su espacio fue totalmente borrado. […]
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er… he still can’t have msn search box on wordpress.com…
Comment by LcF | March 20, 2006
Developers, developers, developers!
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Yeah, LcF, but not because Matt Mullenweg is being an ass, but because the system may not allow for it yet. That’s fine with me.
Comment by Nathan Weinberg | March 20, 2006
Blogger folks investigated and debunk most (all?) of this:
http://buzz.blogger.com/2006/03/search-policy.html
Comment by Matt Cutts | March 21, 2006
Yeah, I’m posting on it soon. Although I’d hardly call it debunking, more like denying. But I believe Blogger, and I’ll explain why in my post.
Comment by Nathan Weinberg | March 21, 2006
I’m all for blogger. I’ve seen many msn search bars and none of them have been shut down so far…
Comment by Jones | March 22, 2006
Hey wassss up .,,,,,.
Comment by lizbeth | April 4, 2006
Response to; BlogSpot Says No To MSN Search? “Looks like he moved to Wordpress.com hosting.”
It’s a greatthing as I would have moved as well. It’s an interesting post and a strange situatin in my opinion. Best of luck!
Comment by Don Lapre Fan | October 30, 2006