I see that on my other blog that Google thinks it’s spam. In its search results it marks all links with the warning “This site may harm your computer” and pops up a warning screen before taking you to the site. Obviously this isn’t good for first time visitors that are arriving via Google.
I put in a request for a human to review what’s going on. Clearly the blog is not spam, nor does it contain an bad scripts–but the bot doesn’t know that.
The frustrating part of all of this is that there are spam bots that we’ve been fighting for a long time that scrape the content and post parts of it on various spam blogs and sites–some with malicious intent and Google like us has struggled to control this. I think Google’s code has gone too far this time. That’s the fun of automating something. It’s going to be wrong some percentage of the time.
Google says it’s going to take possibly a few weeks to get around to reviewing the links, until then this is going to be pretty embarrassing and I’m know it’s going to confuse my parents to no end if they try to visit the blog via Google. I’ll have to convince them to use Live Search instead :-). Sorry Google, that’s what happens when you get something wrong like this.