Why is Google having problems, the following story might shed some light on the situation.... http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid={010B82D2-4FEF-4186-893C-675085A028DE}&siteid=mktw&dist=nbs Ever hear the song there are too many Chiefs and not enough Indians in this town Well there are too many pages and not enough servers in Google town
Yup; it's astonishing how many there are, and many of them are so blatantly spammy that you just have to chuckle. I am willing to bet that the management @ blogger (g00gle) will eventually crack down on all those spam blogs. It just doesn't make sense to let them continue to exist. Has anyone heard of blog account being cancelled??? Not me. Anyone? AmCy
Maybe, but if anyone can conjure up a solution to the inevitable increased demand it's g00gle. IMO. AmCy
What other services does Google charge for? If they don't charge for anything else, why would they charge for this?
I doubt Google will charge unless they come out with another version of blogger plus or something optional.
1) ADWORDS 2) Google appliance enterprise search 3) Custom data mining services for government and business 4) and a hell of a lot of other services like maps and a whole lot of other stuff, get an annual report and you can see each of their revenue streams.
Why would Google or any company that is in the advertising business delete content. No matter how spammy a blog may be, it is in their interest to have as many publishers on their staff as they can. And, I don't see Blogger being any different than Gmail or Yahoo Mail. How many of those accounts are setup for a one time use? I am sure a lot. I see blogger being the same. The issue is not that they are low on disk space, the issue is that their servers are not able to keep up with publishing demand (connecting to remote sites, etc).
I think they should clean up some junk and not used blogs. When I first signed up with blogger, I was trying to find a name (very niche, very specific field) and all the names were taken (both English and Turkish versions). And believe me none of the URL's had a blog, only one put up a list of links in one post that's all. All the names were taken, and just left there for months/years. So I had to pick a very unrelated name for my blog.
Chachi, Yahoo deletes email accounts that are not active after 4 months if you have not logged in. Everyone has limits as to old accounts that are kept up. If a blog gets ZERO traffic why would they keep it up forever
I love my gmail where you no longer have to delete. Like Napoleon Dynamite would say: SWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET
exactly. maybe they should delete the blogger accounts if there's not a new post let's say within last year or 6 months etc. If somebody doesn't post for 1 year, it's obviously a dead blog.
Ahh yes, services that where never free and are more professional targeted. Not services that are targeted at the average person.
Problem with that is that I have a blogger account, but don't post in the blog. I just use my account to post comments on other blogger blogs. So, you don't need to blog to use blogger. I guess that makes it more difficult. They'd need to separate out their services out so that you could have an account open forever, but have a blog available only if you post in it every few months.
Blogger won't do this. I wanted a certain subdomain for my Blogger site and I checked out the site that had the domain. There was only ONE post and it was two years ago. I emailed Blogger support to see if I could 1) get contact info for the old owner, and/or 2) have support delete the subdomain. Well support said no to both. Their policy is to keep a site around no matter how dormant is has become. This is a pain, IMHO, because lots of people are signing up for Blogger because of how tied in it is with AdWords and good Blogger subdomains (something.blogspot.com) are taken. They won't release any contact information for privacy concerns, which I understand, but email addresses are changed or not used often. Is Blogger going to keep a site dormant for 2 (or 20) years while the original owners email address might be useless by then? They really need to rethink their policy before other people join other online blogging sites. It's only a matter of time before people make easy AdSense plugins for other blog software.
have u guys ever typed in http://www.blogpsot.com/ It;s a typo of blogspot.com .. last time i thought that blogspot was hijacked It has a PR5 but so little links coming in (may be im the one who contribute to the pr5 of the site now) Edit:wow.. the main url has a pr8 www.Amazingbiblestudies.com
those guys are not just getting traffic for misspelling blogspot but every subdomain with that misspell And every site accidentally linking to them this way.
Interesting site. It's not often that you see a typo domain get developed into something. Most people just park them somewhere. AmCy