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What did he think was going to happen? He's using a free service provided by Google.

Just another whiney blogger.

Whoah, people actually use search engines other than Google?

"Im going to call Google in a little while and see if we can come to am agreement"... Does he really think Google has time to waste?!

btw... the current location of the search bar is pointless anyway, I'm willing to bet that thing gets one use a month - and it's by him!

Possibly two different reasons why people are digging:
1. Way to go Google!
2. Google needs to respect their bloggers.

Me, I digg it for number 1.

"I use both Linux and Windows on a daily basis." He should know better than to use msn search if he knows enough to use linux *shrug*

why not just add a google bar, they're actually usefull. And google has a good reason for this why should they advertise their competitions search engine on a free blog?

This guy's an idiot for, first of all, using something other than Google and for disputing it. You're using a free service from Google, what the hell do you expect?

Wah Wah Wah, cry me a river blog boy.

Google is much better than MSN anyway.

yep, MSN sucks anyway... use google

Uh, you're missing the point here.

What happened to dont be evil? Thats like Microsoft blocking out google on their operating system.

i dont see why anyone would use the msn search bar anyway... its just subtracting from this guys blog.

hahahahaha why in gods name would anyone use msn search, and if my eyes are working correctly isnt that the msn search still @the bottom of his page?

Maybe he should move to MSN Spaces?

"Google fears MSN Search" is a good title.

This attention-seeking whore was blubbering about this on Channel9, too. His whole raison d'etre seems to be figuring out whatever it takes to annoy others.

Wow, he is getting slammed on his blog. Seriously, I didn't even know MSN made their searchbox available, he must have been one of 3 people using it. Attention seeking at its finest.

who cares, it's freakin' microsoft!

If you use Google's tools, then you play by Google's rules. Simple as that.

http://www.blogger.com/terms.g
He has no right to bitch. He agreed to those terms. It states "...interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers or networks connected to the Service, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Service;". If they determined that MSN Search disrupts their service then he can't really argue. Read the terms before clicking people.

So...the whole point of the article is that some guy didn't follow the rules so he got in trouble?

The title should be "Man doesn't follow TOS. Received e-mail about it". Notice how that is not exciting. This article, no matter how you attempt to spice it up is the same way. This should not be on digg.

This really seems evil.., because it is a form of censorship all the blogger did was plop a search bar in there. Note the specious argument for removal: "obstructing Googles services from operating efficiently and effectively"

If "it's a competing service" is the true reason for the required removal, then it seems the site's admins were deceptive in a way, which is far from not evil.


Think what they might have done if he posted a whole article critical of Google or describing some
service offered by a conceivable competitor?

Yes, Google has the legal right to force him to remove it, which does not mean it is the right thing to do.

Especially not to avoid admitting that the reason for removal is that Blogger happens to be owned by Google now.

Maybe 7 years from now, if Blogger gets bought out by Microsoft, immediately followed by a wiping of all pro-Linux blog articles and links, people will realize, that self-serving censoring of legitimate
content users put up is evil, no matter who does it.

I call *****.

Why would google care if a blog had an msn bar in a spot where I'm sure it gets little or no use.

All the comments in his blog are making me laugh...heh...if this is real, then I agree with Google, although I do not like the fact they are enforcing him to remove it, but either way I love Google and I wouldn't use any other search bar. They're pretty much telling him to live a better life. It's like talking someone out of suicide.

This clown is just being kooky and trying to get some action on his lame ass blog. Oh man, putting an MSN Search box on a page hosted by the competition... whoahohohohahahahahaha!!! Zany! Kooky! Stupid!

Right after he did this, I'll bet he went to McDonald's and ordered a Whopper!! Whoahohohohahahaha!!

This story has no business being on the front page of Digg. Reported as lame. -digg

msn blows anyways.

It's all a cunning plan to get more hits on his blog

when i report stories as lame does it actually do anything? admins take off any story if it gets 100+ lame reports

If that guy actually chooses MSN, he deserves whatever he gets.

I have to give Google a hand for this. Anyone who actually likes using MSN over Google is out of their mind (no offense). Although I find it interesting my site has gotten more hits from the MSNbot than the Googlebot.

WTF. Why is this surprising. What a whiny little bitch! Of course Google's gonna block an MSN search bar.

No *****, he should move to msn with his blog... what a morron

what if he had added a mapquest link to his favorite video store, or posted his AOL IM account, does google have the right to claim that those interfere with their services too?

Where do you draw the line considering the fact that google is buying up every damn service out there on teh web right now?

Well, google is a corporation like all corporations (Myspace, Microsoft, etc...). As it's a free service, why complain.

That blogger should find some other service that provides that.

And ***** MSN. MSN sucks and is a reason why IE sucks.

msn search is acually better in most cases than google now days, just that no one noticed.

Boy, is he getting slammed...

"Your mom is a skank who wears combat boots.
MSN tried to hide it from me, but a quick Google search revealed the truth."

"Why do I feel the need to spam the hell out of this ***** blog?"

Not to mention the full-page recipe on cooking rice that somebody posted...

MSN Does Suck, And Google is absolutely right. But why MSN ? Google is alot better than MSN in every way.

Sweet Christ, has anyone been to his website? http://www.geocities.com/rjdohnert/
He has links to his blogspot, his spaces.msn blog, and his audio blog at easyjournal He also displays his personal email address using mailto:

Also the site gave me a headache just looking at it.

reported as lame

stupid title dragging people in here...ffs

First of all, I never complained about what Google did. When I originally posted it on C9 and on the blog, which has been removed by the way, go to http://rjdohnert.wordpress.com. Anyhow, the search was up there for over a year and no complaints. Not only that but I was accused of doing something I didnt do. If Microsoft on their spaces site had a user pull the Google search, how up in arms would you guys be?

Why did you remove your posts attacking Google? Just curious. Seems strange that you would do so. They were there earlier. Why are they gone now?

Google Sucks

Blogger followed up with a post at http://buzz.blogger.com/2006/03/search-policy.html

One excerpt: "Our content policies enable the widest range of expression possible. And we're proud that Blogger users can customize their blogs in the manner that suits them best ... even if that means using another search tool."

(Note: I'm a software engineer at Google.)