Google Mistakes Own Search Blog as Spam, Deletes It

This is just dripping with irony, but it also shows why its just better to have your own domain rather than a blogger site.

From InfoWorld here:

Readers of Google’s Custom Search Blog were handed a bit of a surprise Tuesday when the Web site was temporarily removed from the blogosphere and hijacked by someone unaffiliated with the company.
 
The problem? Google had mistakenly identified its own blog as a spammer’s site and handed it over to another person.

Typically Google notifies blog owners when it has spotted content associated with spam on their Web sites to give them a chance to clear up any misunderstandings.

However, that didn’t work out in this case. “The Custom Search Blog bloggers overlooked their notification, and after a period of time passed, the blog was disabled.”

When blogs are disabled like this, their URL becomes available to the general public.

Google guys don’t read their own email.  Content written about search engines are labeled by a Search Engine as spam.  Luckily Blogger keeps a pretty good backup of the content to restore it in such cases as this.