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Google Indexes New Blogs With Few Delays

Owners of new Blogspot or WordPress sites may worry that Google won't index them.  And we can't guarantee that Google will do so quickly, or even that the search giant will do so at all.  There's a fair amount of evidence suggesting that things will be taken care of sooner rather than later, however.

Online Retailers Sending More Holiday Email

Promotional email from retailers on Cyber Monday increased this year with 55 percent more sending email this year than last year according to RetailEmail.Blogspot, a site that monitors email marketing campaigns of major retailers.

Google Israel Compelled to Expose Blogger

Slav Ben Ari sends in this news bit from his blog – I cannot read Hebrew and can’t confirm this info:

Blogspot Blogger: Google Did Less than Required

In a recent court case against Google, it was decided that a Blogspot blogger from the US may keep her anonymity, considering free speech protection rights.

Court: Blogspot Blogger May Remain Anonymous

Mayer Fertig at the Jewish Star on November 2nd reports (my link/ emphasis):

Google Disappears Facebook Code Blog

When Google-owned Blogger sends you a Digital Millennium Copyright Act take-down notice, at least they're polite about it and liberally use the word "alleged." But they only ask once, as the person who posted Facebook's source code on his Blogspot blog learned.

Google Asked To Reveal Blogger Identity

Another anonymous blogger is in the defamation hot seat after anonymous commentators labeled a local school board member a "bigot," an "anit-Semite," and even "ugly." The target of those words didn't take kindly to them and is demanding that Google reveal both the identity of the blogger and the commentators.

Blogspot and SEO

Well it never just rains. It has to pour. I made an offer of some free SEO reviews a while back and a nasty confluence of happenings has upset my apple cart. But I’m going to try and get some advice out to a few more people now. And this is going to be the toughest task I’ve had in a while. You see it never dawned on me that so many folk would be on hosted blogs. Let’s just say that optimising Blogspot is not a straight forward task.

Search Spam Comes From Few Places

Microsoft researchers teamed up with University of California, Davis researchers to pinpoint exactly where "the bottleneck" of Web spam occurs and how legitimate advertisers inadvertently end up in bad neighborhoods. The majority of spam, they found out, comes from the same few places, and the middlemen are some names you might recognize.

Countries Blocking Blogspot

Ethan Zuckerman asks "what do India, Pakistan, China, and Ethiopia have in common?"