Google's bot crawlers apparently think I'm a porn site or something and killed the ability of writers, visual artists and others to find information on my blog through Google.
This is the much milder form of the Soviet gulag, I suppose.
I don't think I'll be writing a Solzhenitsyn-heavy novel about the experience.
But who knows.
Pain sensation varies greatly from person to person.
One man's athlete's foot is another man's testicular cancer.
I found the bot's compilation with complaints from everything to "Lithuanian Porn" (the name of a poem I wrote that has absolutely nothing to do with Lithuanian porn) to "gay boys in love" which is a YouTube video (non-pornographic) which depicts exactly that...two gay young guys having a good time running around Barcelona or someplace to references to "Amy Sedaris" (??).
I verified my blog, did the meta-tag thing and sent in my appeal (wait weeks they tell you and you WON'T get an individual answer, they say...well, their text tells you...you can't speak to a live human ever).
So they functionally killed my blog.
Sure, there are you few friends who are reading this, but the opportunity to meet new artists and discover new semblables through the joy of blog-connection is now beheaded. I was getting well over 300 hits many days and people were finding the artists they wanted to read about here. Those numbers plunged the moment Google pulled the plug (through their misunderstanding).
It would be more dramatic and I could rage, Lear-like, if I had been pseudo-morally vandalized by some amoral asshole, but I saw the report when I verified and it was clearly one of their bots. The inhuman critiqued my sense of humor. How like nature. I'm guessing when I passed the 100,000 mark it generated some sort of automatic check since it happened right around there.
Sure, I engage in the occasional prank....linking "hot free sex thumbs" to a UNICEF campaign to help dying children in Africa (for example) because I think that's a good wake up call.
I do not link to porn sites or sites which make money and don't believe I violated Google/Blogger's code of ethics. Maybe I have a weird sense of humor. But that's it. I'm sorry if I disappointed a few porn addicts. Hey, we used to shop at the same stores. I don't judge you. I just yanked your chain. And you like that, right? You're a porn addict!
I'm hoping they do the right thing and restore me to the search listings.
But it's making me think it's time to move on and set up elsewhere on the net.
And I don't mean Blogger.
Anybody have any suggestions for good free sites which have a good set-up and can host lots of writing, visual works, movies, etc and don't have stringent limit sizes or low convert-to-pay thresholds?
Tra la.
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I don't think WordPress is quite as fascist as Google, but then again, I've never used it.
Maybe LiveJournal?
Thanks, Angela.
LiveJournal..that's the one with all the Russkies, right?
ya gavuryu puh-russki nimnoga...so that should be fun..
maybe i can get a cyrillic keyboard..
Birger K's niece wrote me about her wonderful uncle...how did she find me without Google lol?
Correction: "great niece."
Wordpress can actually comes in two flavors...if you're techie, you can download its software and set up a "powered by wordpress" blog which is subject to no restrictions.
Hey, this is depressing news. With blogger you could always make a new blog and import your material there. That would reset your counter and maybe outsmart the google bot. ? I hope this helps :)
Hi Rachel...that is a great idea and one I stumbled across last night while troubleshooting this problem..but the guy who had done this was at the same site I was because he had a new set of problems getting verified relating to that...not to say that would happen to me but I guess I can hold out for that as a last resort...it might work..and thanks for thinking of a possible solution! It might work...??xo
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