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Fighting blog spam, magic strikes the magician! |
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Amr Magdy – AlJazeeratalk - Cairo
 "We will use Google doing everything in our life sooner or later, even to find your little son when he's lost in the street!!"; Said the engineer who was explaining us the search tools on the internet among a course of E-journalism and blogging!
Ok, I also believe that google is something like inventing the wheel which has become the basis of every mobile vehicle on the ground,, but it's finally a human production!
Ok, have you ever imagined logging into the internet one morning to discover that someone is "occupying" your blog?!
First of all, I received a telephone call from my friend telling me that he tried to log into my blog but he couldn't open it!
I was studying Pediatrics so I didn't think about the matter a lot; I said to myself "hey, it's just Abdo with his foolishness!!"
But on the last Wednesday, I logged into the net to get some stuff related to the exams, and I was shocked when I just had tried to take a look on my blog but there was a totally different blog with an idiot appearance, different little content and another owner but the same URL!!
The first idea came to my mind was that my password was stolen or perhaps my blog was hacked by the security authorities fighting bloggers in Egypt!
Then, I realized – logging on my dashboard – that the password has not been stolen and there's just been a very strange problem!
 My blog was reported as a spam, and thus they removed it!! I couldn't imagine what easy it was, just an idiot clicking on "report as spam" then they believed him and removed my (72 spams)!!
There was a button "restore access to blog" which I clicked behind astonished imprisoned tears, It told me that they will check the problem in a business of day.
When I came back from my exam, I opened my email and they left me a reply apologizing and giving my blog back but on different URL!!!
I sent to the support describing the problem and thanks Allah they did it!
When I searched for the resolve of that problem I found a lot of people facing the same thing.
Generally, thanks Google for your big universal services, but please don't let it happen again! We know that it has been of increasing necessary to fight automated blog spam but if you're a magician then don't let the magic to turn on you!
Lastly, I am still thinking if it was the cyper crime police department in state security trying to annoy the Egyptian bloggers?!
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