Saturday, August 11, 2007

Hoist by Their Own Petard

We read:

"Remember a few weeks back when Google blocked Gates of Vienna as a possible "spam blog"? Well, it seems that Google's left hand does not know what its right hand is doing:

Google Mistakes Own Blog for Spam, Deletes it

Readers of Google Inc.'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.

Source

What a laugh!