And then it was gone. After a healthy breakfast and a cortado I was faced with this when visiting my blog. It had been deleted by the good folks at google. No email, no message saying “Sorry”. Just gone.
It seems I’m not the only facing such difficulties (as a search for deleted blogspot blogs will show), but it seems that google sometimes does it to their own blogs (http://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-blog-accidentally-deleted-by-google/3186/)
What really irked me though was that they did not even send an email to the owner of the blog. Is this the right way to treat bloggers? Even more frustrating is the attempt to contact google for help. Their “help” pages on blogspot are a hellish circle of multiple choice questions that led me to read the postings of other helpless users on the blogpost help group.
The only choice I had was to host this blog myself. So here we go, a new site, a new url. Thanks google.
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