Comments on: Sneaky Google How Could You Do This To Blogger?!

By: jessie

jessie — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:30:00 +0000

kabayan, i have always been posting something about these (against Goog's rude policies) in my blogs especially at What Have You. You may visit the site if u have time.

maybe we can exchange links... our readers will also benefit from it.

By: eam

eam — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:03:00 +0000

Sea Eagle: I’m sorry that you were affected with the page ranking. I really don’t understand why they would do that! They seem so selfish that they just want all of us to be contend with their adsense and do nothing more! yes, they’re getting to be like a monopoly like microsoft!! I think that’s what they intend to do ” Take over the World” because as it is, we’re already so dependent on them on Search among other things… Sigh.

I know it is such a hassle to move things over to wordpress but now i’m really thinking about it…maybe i’ll do it as part of my new year’s resolution! lol

Let’s do it! Let’s move to Wordpress in January 2008!

Cyberpunk: Initially, I thought I had a problem with my connection too! So I went to check out other blogs and they gave me the same thing!!

I know what you mean about the wordpress style. I like that better too. Hey, when you find something better than Haloscan, please let me know! for now, i’ll use this one… thanks!

Bingskee: Congratulations on making the move!! I want to!! BUT I might not understand their setup! Is it really easy at wordpress? thanks for stopping over and leaving a note…

mae | http://www.sinigang-dmeemai.blogspot.com/| 12.07.07 - 12:28 am |

By: mae

mae — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:02:00 +0000

WOW!! Thanks for all the positive cheers! I am NOW really seriously contemplating of totally shifting my blogs to Wordpress!!

JMOM: Sorry to hear about your PR being affected. You got the term exactly right! Google plans to be the god of the internet!

you make it sound so easy to move to wordpress!! That is a totally unknown territory for me because I’m just familiarizing myself with Blogger and I might NOT understand how Wordpress works! So I can import everything? Really? I’ll look into that. Thanks much- you just encouraged me!

elay: let’s move over to WORDPRESS NA!!

mae | http://www.sinigang-dmeemai.blogspot.com/| 12.07.07 - 12:20 am |

By: elay

elay — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:01:00 +0000

glad i read this post..i have not really noticed those changes..but now that i have an idea on what sneaky google has been up to..i’m doing something about it. thanx.

elay | http://www.flygirl01.blogspot.com/| 12.06.07 - 8:35 pm |

By: JMom

JMom — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:59:00 +0000

Great post! My two blogspot blog with PR4s were zapped to 0 recently because i do TLA and PPP. Then I too noticed that they had taken the ‘other’ option on the comments. Google, I feel just appointed themselves god of the internet, and I’m choosing to become an internet atheist I am not changing anything about the way I’m blogging just to please them.

You should still consider moving your blog to wordpress before you get any farther and they do something else to mess things up. Importing your old posts to wordpress has gotten a lot easier; just one click.

JMom | http://amoores.com/| 12.05.07 - 10:53 am |

By: cyberpunk

cyberpunk — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:58:00 +0000

wow, I half-noticed that change in the comment page but thought that my crappy connection was just not loading the page properly…and I even bothered a few months ago to remove the no-follow thingie on the template.

bad bad Blogger. I’ll think about switching to HaloScan this weekend, although I prefer the wordpress style, where the comment box automatically appears below the post, instead of the commenter having to click “post comment” first

cyberpunk | http://kaide.blogspot.com/| 12.05.07 - 10:40 am |

By: bingskee

bingskee — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:56:00 +0000

noticed this last night while am doing the rounds. i was a former blogger at Blogger. had problems before so i shifted to WP.

bingskee | http://bingskee.com/| 12.05.07 - 6:32 am |

By: Sea Eagle

Sea Eagle — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:55:00 +0000

Great post! You’ve summarised my own frustrations with Google & Blogger very well. So, far (in the space of a month) I’ve had my main 2 blogs dropped in PageRank from 4 to 0 because I advertise Text Link Ads on them. I didn’t know about what’s happened with the comments. It’s not really a surprise though - Google seems to have dumped it’s “Do No Evil” motto in favor of “Take Over The World”. They want to penalise anyone who does not exclusively use their services. It’s uncompetitive behaviour, and it seems that Google has been avidly reading from Microsoft’s books of dirty tricks and stopping competition.

What has really peeved me off this week is that, without notice, they suspended a popular blog of mine without even looking at it. It’s a completely legal picture blog, and Google/Blogger said their computer suspended it because it had - wait for it - too many outgoing links! Crikey - it’s a picture blog! It’s got thumbnails that link to full-sized images. Of course it’s got a lot of links - people view the thumbnails and click the ones they like for the full picture.

I requested Blogger to manually review & reinstate it on the 30th November, but they haven’t responded yet. Extremely poor customer service! I spent a lot of time building up my readership, and if it stays offline much longer, people will remove it from their bookmarks and stop visiting.

I would change to another blog hosting service in an instance if it wasn’t such a hassle. Blogger’s become too authoritarian and treats it’s members and visitors with contempt.

Cheers

Sea Eagle
http://scott2096.blogspot.com/| 12.05.07 - 2:25 am |