For all those who wonder what happens when you report the infringement of copyright or impersonation of your website or blog to Google.....
- The good news - Google reviewed my report
- The bad news - Google has not done what it told me it had done
In short:
- Earlier this year I found a blog which had lifted my blog posts wholesale - and then changed some of the words - and decorated the blog with Google Adsense adverts
- I reported it to Google in April - but heard nothing
- I reported it again in September with a LOT more detail. To do a report you file a formal copyright infringement report - providing a lot of detail
- see https://support.google.com/legal/troubleshooter/1114905
- see https://support.google.com/legal/troubleshooter/1114905#ts=1115645 (re infringement via Blogger)
- you wait for a long time
- My first report was ignored.
- My second report was filed on 14 September;
- I received an email from the Google Blogger Support Team today (9th November 2020)
- you get an email saying they agree with you - and the blog is now suspended and will no longer be viewable
- you check the URL of the offending blog - and FIND THE BLOG STILL EXISTS!!
- you email the Google Blogger Support Team saying you are very unimpressed and are now writing a blog post about it
- you email the Google Blogger Support Team saying you want to pursue the money paid to the blogger who impersonated by blog
GOOGLE FAIL
Bottom line what looks good on the surface does not deliver in reality
We take inappropriate content seriouslyIn visual terms this is what the process looks like.......
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