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Country Specific Blog URLs

Recently Google has found an awesome way to defend blogs against local law. Say you’re in the UK reading a blog, normally the URL would read (blogname).blogspot.com, but now with this new trick the URL can read (blogname).blogspot.com.uk. Pretty cool, …

Blogger Now Using Country-Specific URLs

Sites on Google’s Blogger platform have long used addresses of the form blogname.blogspot.com. Google is now applying the same regional detection it uses on its main site to Blogger, so many of those addresses will now show up in the form blogname.blogspot.com.au for Australian visitors. Google Operating System (a blog which itself is affected by the switch) notes that the change is designe ...

Remains of the Day: MegaUpload User's Data is Safe for Two More Weeks [For What It's Worth]

# forwhatitsworth MegaUpload's user's data is safe for two more weeks, Google begins redirecting Blogspot blogs to country-specific URLs, and Google defends the consolidation of its privacy policies. More »

Google Enabling 'Per Country' Blocking on Blogger

Google is deploying a country-specific URL scheme for its Blogger platform that some are likening to Twitter's recent plan to block tweets that run afoul of country language restrictions.

Blogger.com's New Takedown Policy Thwarts Censorship

Google's Blogger has found a way to handle local government takedown requests similar to the way Twitter now does . It will now start redirecting readers to country-specific top-level domains (TLD) instead of the usual blogspot.com domain. It does so based on the location of the user's IP address, just as many other Google services do. This gives Google the "flexibility" to comply with removal ...