Comments on: Google Deletes Their Own Blog

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By: MLMForums.net » Google deleted their own blog

MLMForums.net » Google deleted their own blog — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:32:25 +0000

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By: eszpee

eszpee — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:58:15 +0000

In case you wouldn’t have a backup strategy, I just wrote an article on this topic:

http://blogtweaks.com/general/200603-how_to_backup_your_blog.html

By: tom sherman

tom sherman — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:47:17 +0000

Scott Young: Makes you like them more?! Would love to see that standard applied to Microsoft. I guess you can join the mob licking Google's (and Apple's) boots and cursing Microsoft. Whatever. p.s. Any company that perpetuates the use of that god-forsaken "my bad" (in this case, "our bad," guhhh) phrase should be shut down!

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:13:16 +0000

I remember myself when I was using blogger, I was surprised to see a big button “Delete blog” in the middle of the page. Perhaps they will now make it harder to delete your blog. An email confirmation or something is probably a good idea.

By: Quick Online Tips

Quick Online Tips — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 14:12:11 +0000

Being a long time blogspot user myself, once you delete the blogger account, everything is gone - posts, template... I still wonder how they got it all back with full archives so quickly. I have some tips to back up blogger blogs.

By: DaEMoN

DaEMoN — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:40:27 +0000

..and right when complaints about blogger.com blogs deleted without warning seemed to reach their peak.. Google confirmed :)
Oh, the irony

By: Mark Allchin

Mark Allchin — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:30:39 +0000

It’s funny that it seems quite easy to delete a blog by mistake and yet I have tried out 3 different blogging scripts over the last week or so and yet I cannot delete the ones I decided not to use either from the database or from my webspace. Oh well maybe I will contact the guy at Google and ask him how he did it ;)

By: KCA

KCA — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:35:16 +0000

I really not surprise… it happened to me also, i accidentally deleted on of my blogger blog.

When u want to delete one Wordpress blog, you need to confirm few step and finalyze an e mail comfirmation.
In Blogger, on the dashboard there is just oen icone to click, and your blog is gone in the second. No confirmation, no possiblity to retract you rchoice, nothing.

Matter of fact the “delete this blog” icone is just near the one to save the globbal settings”.

By: Michael Moncur

Michael Moncur — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 05:30:29 +0000

That was hilarious. Some kid registered the name and had his own blog there for half a day.

By: Aaress

Aaress — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 05:06:54 +0000

Scary – although it is a good reminder to use backups. I normally try to backup both of my blogs every few weeks, just in case I either goof up or have to deal with hackers.

By: Loren

Loren — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 04:39:03 +0000

Thanks for the coverage Big D.

I’m amazed the Blogger who put up the notice did not place AdSense or YPN ads all over the place.

By: Melody

Melody — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 04:34:02 +0000

Makes the playing field feel a tad more level, eh?

Squarespace offers the ability to backup all blog (”journal” in ss terminology) files as often as we like. This was a good reminder that it’s been a while…

By: Jory

Jory — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 04:14:20 +0000

There is a screenshot here of the page, the conversation on the page is fake I think…

http://www.cybernetnews.com/?p=431

By: Scott Young

Scott Young — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 03:50:02 +0000

Wow.

I think that this very ‘un-google’ act of imperfection has made me like the company even more.

By: Shaun Carter

Shaun Carter — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 03:20:37 +0000

This is too funny… just goes to show even Google has humans working behind all the technology!

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 03:08:32 +0000

Ach. Could you please delete the above comment (and this one). Didn’t come out

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 03:07:25 +0000

Aaron, someone beat you to it:

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 03:03:58 +0000

I wonder if the Google engineer’s next trick will be deleting the Google Search database. :)

Oops… there goes the internet. :p