Google Deleting Blogger Blogs?

I’d found some disturbing information while doing some blog and news research this morning. Reports that Google is deleting Blogger blogs (and possibly de-indexing others) are alarming. I don’t see how this can bode well for Blogger at all. Perhaps Google’s takeover of the popular blogging platform was with this very thing in mind– to have more control over the blogosphere.

There’s this story:

So let’s assume I make a blog on blogger.com/blogspot.com - let’s say I tailor it towards one particular narrow field. It could be about a product, it could be about one subject like cars, or it could be a personal blog. It doesn’t really matter because recently, from personal experience, and from scanning the blogosphere, it appears that Google/Blogger/Blogspot is now deleting people’s blogs for absolutely no reason.

The reason -I- was told, that 5 of my blogspot blogs were deleted was because of link spam. I wasn’t spamming. I was actually focusing on narrow fields, talking about products from one particular company for each blog. The articles were real, I wrote them out by hand, it wasn’t some stupid piece of software.

The reason given to this blogger? None.

The reason given to this blogger’s friend? Read more…

This blogger had his blog deleted for no reason, and is trying to garner support. He got it fixed though.

More information here, and here’s a forum thread for Blogger help.

If you have Blogger blogs, you may want to check into this.

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