Ever since Google took over Blogger, they started hosting buckets of spam (in the form of Blog*Spot sites). When AdSense was integrated with Blogger, Google began profiting off of the spam it pays to host. Now with Google Pages, spammers have another way to host their wares gratis from Google [example]. Dare I say Google is the largest host of spam sites in the world?
I got a DMCA complaint sent to me today from the folks at YouTube. Technically they just passed it along, it really came from Oprah. My minute long clip of Oprah chewing out fake author James Frey was removed thanks to claimed copyrights infringement. So much for fair use! Full text of letter below: Read more