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Google has allegedly told a blogger who hosts his site on the company's Blogspot servers that he can't have an MSN Search box on his blog. According to the blogger, Google claims this violates their terms of service. The search box is still live on the site, as you can see from the screen grab below. (Via digg)
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» Google non vuole la MSN Search Box su Blogger from Motoricerca
Google ha chiesto a un utente del servizio Blogger di rimuovere una MSN Search Box che aveva inserito sul proprio blog.
Il motivo è che linserimento di quellelemento è contrario alle condizioni di utilizzo del servizio.
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I wouldn't be surprised if this is a hoax, however, does anyone read the Blogger TOS? If it's in there, then I guess they have every right to say something. I wonder if Google sweeps through looking for searchbox code, I doubt they have humans watchdogging this kind of thing.
Posted by: Drew Olanoff | Friday, March 17, 2006 at 09:37 PM
Bad market strategy...
Posted by: teen | Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 02:04 AM
The blog seems to have vanished now.
Posted by: Andrew Denny | Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 05:13 AM
Hmmm, that guys blog got deleted, or he deleted it. Probably a hoax.
Posted by: Drew Olanoff | Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 12:21 PM
Hoax or not, the vanished blog index page shows a PageRank of 6 on the Google toolbar. Google lists several backlinks to the blog. It looks like the author has moved his blog to WordPress.
Posted by: Fritz | Monday, March 20, 2006 at 03:32 PM
I think we shouldn't be so harsh on Google. After all, they give a free blog, and then host it for free. All they are asking is that people obey their "house rules". Granted, not everyone reads the Terms of Agreement. But, is it really so terrible that they ask blogspot users not to use a competitive search box?
Posted by: Shimon Sandler | Monday, March 20, 2006 at 04:13 PM
Google says the claim is not true.
Posted by: Craig Stuntz | Thursday, March 23, 2006 at 10:30 AM
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