Google mislabels Blogger sites as splogs, locks them

Who you callin' junk-like, pal?


(IDG News Service) In an attempt to rid its Blogger service from spam blogs (splogs), Google Inc. mistakenly flagged a number of legitimate sites last week, prompting the company to scramble to unlock them.

A bug in Google's data processing code caused the problem, leading the detection system to lock Blogger blogs that had otherwise passed the inspection by the company's spam algorithms, Google said on Saturday in an official blog.

"We are adding additional monitoring and process checks to ensure that bugs of this magnitude are caught before they can affect your data," wrote a Google official named Siobhan in the Blogger Buzz blog Saturday.

Google didn't immediately respond to a request for comment, so the scope of the problem isn't clear, but it apparently was significant, judging by the contriteness expressed in various official postings..............


More: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9111581&source=NLT_AM&nlid=1

Wow, it's quite unlikely that a big company would make a mistake like this which will greatly affect their customers.

since google is a company, we can't say people make mistakes.