Google Says No to MSN Search on Blogger?
Threadwatch points to a blogger’s account of Google not being too happy with the placement of an MSN Search Box on a blog hosted by Google’s Blogger/Blogspot.
‘RJDohnert’ posts on the Microsoft Developers Network :
I just checked my e-mail and I got a mail from Google this afternoon. Seems they are kinda ticked that I have an MSN Search box on my blogspot page and they are asking that I remove it. They say its a violation of their Terms of Service yet nowhere in their terms of service does it say its not permitted for me to do such.
EDIT: They say its obstructing their services.
Apparently the account was deleted and now the MSN Search loving blogger has moved his blog over to WordPress.com hosting.
With Yahoo offering a contextual advertising network for bloggers, MSN soon doing the same, and various search engines offering publisher and search tools, the question is What exactly obstructs Blogger/Google services?
* Only search boxes?
* YPN and other ad networks?
* Publisher tools like Y!Q?
Please feel free to chime in with your opinions below.
Wrong move on behalh of Google. The user didn’t remove an existing search box of Google to obstruct their search services. I am using the technorati on one of my blogger accounts. Is that obstructing?
On the other side by doing this Google acknowledges MSN as a threat
I agree with Razva, what happened to “Do no Evil”.
I tried out Windows Live Search, it has the same old index as MSN, but offer pretty good functionality.
This topic has made the front page of Digg – Channel 9 came up with the idea
Are you saying that Channel 9 came up with the idea of placing the MSN Search Box on the blog and seeing what Google would say?
Or that they came up with the idea of Digg’ing the story?