tedster - 2:07 am on Aug 9, 2007 (gmt 0)

At first I could barely believe this story. It sounds so similar to the regular Google blog's problems in March of 2006 [googleblog.blogspot.com]. But I guess it's true - PC World is now reporting the same story, and they've got the same comment from the same Google spokesman:

The answer turned out to be less sinister, according to Sean Carlson, a Google spokesman. "Blogger's spam classifier misidentified the Custom Search Blog as spam," he said via e-mail on Wednesday. [pcworld.com...]

Not the same blog, but a somewhat similar foul-up. Talk about collateral damage!