You can't say Google plays favorites in its never-ending war against spam.
According to Elinor Mills over at
CNET.com, the search giant took down a blog that it had identified as a harboring spam. Unfortunately, it was one of Google's own corporate blogs.
It seems the blog in question,
Google's Custom Search blog, contained a message that bore the suspicious earmarks of spam -- oddly placed punctuation, bad grammer, etc. This got the blog flagged by Google's automated spam classifier, which notifies the blog owner that he's a spam suspect. The owner then can request that humans at Google verify whether the blog is spam. If that request isn't made -- which apparently it wasn't -- the blog is automatically disabled.
After that, things get a bit technical, which is the enemy of funny, so I'll only say that the mistake eventually was reversed.
The point is, I think we should be able to laugh at Google while we still can.
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