We’ve pushed some additional changes this week to make it more difficult for spam to be created using our API and other tools (this includes Hello/Picasa, Flickr, w.bloggar, ecto and many others).The downside to the API changes is that those users whos…
Today we are posting a revised version of the word verification system we released yesterday. With this version we have resolved a number of the problems from the initial launch – the most important of which was the inability of some users to solve th…
One of the ideas I mentioned yesterday was making it more difficult for would-be spammers to post. Earlier today we pushed out a change that will prompt some users to solve a CAPTCHA if our spam classifier identifies the blog as spammy.We plan to quic…
Spam is a tricky problem. Or as Matt Haughey says “spam bloggers sure are resourceful little bastards.”For a while now, the Blogger team has been contending with spam on Blog*Spot through mechanisms like Flag as Objectionable and comment/blog creation…
Interested in finding out who’s linking to your posts? We’ve just introduced a new feature called Backlinks that makes it easy to find out. By turning on Backlinks, we include a “Links to this post” section on your post pages. This section is popula…
If you don’t yet have a song stuck in your head, be sure to check out Rocketboom today for the remedy.
On Saturday, the Blogger team squared off against our good friends from Flickr in the sport of kings … kickball. (Well, it’s the sport kings played when they were in grade school).We’re happy to report that the Blogger side emerged victorious with a …
We’ve just made it a lot easier for Blogger users to make money using their blogs. Our new integration with AdSense lets you signup from within Blogger. And we’ve added a tool for inserting the ads in your blog (so you don’t have to mess around with …
A bunch of us Bloggerfolk will be at Webzine 2005 this weekend in San Francisco. If you’re in town, please come by and check us/it out. Judging by their commercial it should be an unmitigated hoot.
Both of the Blog Search issues mentioned the other day have been resolved. (Also did you know we had advanced operators? It’s true.)
The great thing about launching Blog Search is that it’s very easy to find out what people are saying about the product. And the feedback has been great. Plus, it means that we find out about potential issues right away. Here are a couple questions w…
One night the gifted young pianist Jeremy Denk accompanied Emma Bell in Mozart and Debussey songs, and also played Bach’s Third English Suite. He’s a powerful, intelligent musician, as severe in Bach as he is sensuous in Debussey. He is also a blogger…
There have been some good questions sent in about the new Flag feature. One thing we’ve seen is the worry that blogs could be removed because of accidental or repeated voting. Or even just because some people considered a blog to be distasteful. Ther…
We’ve just introduced the option to require word verification for comments. This option (off by default) gives bloggers a tool to prevent the automatic creation of comments by nefarious ne’er-do-wells (e.g. spammers).Features like comment captcha and …