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Sunday, February 10, 2008

Update: Disappearing Blogs

Well here it is Sunday February 10th, 2008 and still
no word from Blogger blogspot about the missing blogs.
But I also see in their forum that there are even more
than I thought that have disappeared. Looks as if some of
the older blogs are gone from their dashboard. We are all
still waiting to hear what they have to say about this.

Yesterday (Saturday Feb.9th) I spent some time just going
from one blog to another blog by clicking on the "next blog"
button in the vbar. Most of the blogs that I saw were
in a language other than English and the others were mostly
pages with photos. I ran across 3 that were just fronts
that redirected me to porn sites. You would think those
would be the ones that would be removed, not ones that are
of some help to the reader.

I sure hope that we who have lost all our blogs get an answer
from them soon so we will know if and when we will be able to
get our blogs back up and running. You can bet, if I do get
any of them back on the Internet I will be moving them to a
safer host and making back-ups daily.

Return tomorrow for more news on the Mystery of the "Disappearing Blogs"

2 comments:

Morgan Drake Eckstein said...

Yeah, one would think that the pornographic redirects would be of more concern than the others. But I guess that ultimately they do not cause the same type of problems for search engines.

Though let's be honest--this is not a clean up operation; this was them losing a server or something equally annoying. They can try to spin it, but this was a big mistake.

Shirley said...

That is what it seems to be but do you think they would admit to such a thing? They would rather pass the blame on to the bloggers and some are too naive to know better. There is no way that they could check and delete so many blogs in such a short time.
You would think that they would put a post in their forum if it was a server problem, therefore eliminating all the inquiries they are receiving.
But like I said "It's much easier for them to pass the blame to someone else."

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