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Project Insomnia

Project Insomnia is many things, but in this context it is simply a "braindump" of whatever I happen to be thinking/reading/watching/doing at the moment. Parental guidance suggested.

Monday, December 05, 2005

Not just me

Got another response from Blogger. Get this:
Hello, Blogger reserves the right to remove those blogs which are setup either automatically or manually for the purpose of manipulating search engine results or generating revenue or traffic through deceptive means. In accordance to the termination provision of the TOS (http://www.blogger.com/terms.g), we have therefore terminated your account. Sincerely, Blogger Support

I have never been warned or given any indication that my use of Blogger's service violates their TOS. It seems they simply decided to drop me without any appeal or discussion. I also received a comment to an older post--since I can't enable comments to these manually-entered posts--as follows:
Andrew, same things happenned to me. Disgraceful. Still waiting for my "this is looked upon unafavorably" email. Interestingly, my Blogs still running generating revenue via Adssense for Google. However, I am unable to access it. I look upon this as VERY unfavourable!! Maybe we should start a "User Account Not Found" Blog - for fellow "locked Out" Colleagues... on another Blogging Tool??

The Web site linked to the person who commented is dritil.blogspot.com, apparently a news aggregator for IT professionals. It shows the same symptoms as my Blogger sites currently: the main page displays, but archives and sub-pages are gone. The AdSense links on my pages are also still active; in fact, I've seen an uptick in ad clicks in the last couple of weeks, perhaps from people coming to see what has happened. Let me make two things absolutely clear:
  1. Blogger has unilateraly taken action to "terminate" my account, without giving me any chance to fix whatever problem is bothering them.

  2. I do not intend to simply lie down and take it.
|| Andrew, 2:20 PM || ||

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