Comments on: Google disables own blog as spam

Google misidentifies its Custom Search blog; original content now restored.

[dunnsanfrancisco]

Srikanth: Enroll in an English class

I guess the lesson to be learned in all this is that Srikanth, who writes on Google's Blogoscoped (http://blogoscoped.com/) should address the issue of his spelling and grammar. Either he has a blind proofreader or he hasn't learned enough English to write in a polished manner. His grammar and spelling was almost as bad as one sees in the average Nigerian scam letter. That's why Google's security system thought it was spam - the quality of Srikanth's language use was below acceptable standards.

[Pete Bardo]

It aint that bad!

Apart from the dangling preposition--a mistake native speakers often make--his grammar's not that bad. The punctuation is another matter, but it's hard to tell what punctuation he actually used. The question mark (?) usually indicates an unrecognized character. Some word processors distinguish between a single quote and an apostrophe. The single quote will have both an opening and a closing representation. Those characters, when appearing in an HTML document, will display as a question mark. Same is true for documents that use opening double quotes.

Blogging, in general, has lead to a degradation of acceptable English and grammar. I'm not endorsing poor writing, simply recognizing that it exists.

Dunnsanfrancisco's comments seem to assume Srikanth is not a native English-speaker. There are plenty of people named Pete or Joe--people who know no other language than English--who can't write or spell or properly punctuate. What's the big deal?

[Ilgaz]

Would you comment this if his name was "Johnson"?

So, you expect everyone who's native language is other than
English to be perfect?

In fact, some of tools you must be using are coded by people
not knowing anything else than "Thank you" or "Hello" in
English.

If you follow technical blogs, live with it.

[martini1179]

Ironic, actually ...

Not 15 minutes ago, I checked my Gmail and, for the first time, found one of my Google Alerts IN MY SPAM FOLDER. LOL.