October 28, 2004

That's it, then, no more blogging about the Crimean War

Emphasis and hyperlink mine:

Subject: Re: [#14677991] Please use http://jimtreacher.com as one of your news sources
Date: 10/28/2004
From: source-suggestions@google.com
To: [Me]

Hi Jim,

Thank you for your note. We apologize for our delayed response. We reviewed this site but cannot add it to Google News because we currently only include sites that report on recent events. We appreciate your suggestion and will log the site for consideration should our guidelines change.

Regards,
The Google Team

Well, at least this one was from a slightly more convincing AI. (See previous automated reply.) First they were telling people they started linking to Kos because he has a staff, AKA all the other serotonin-jockeys who post there, which apparently makes him more of a news source than single-person blogs. So I made it clear that I have a staff as well. Watch those goalposts go. Not that I'm really expecting a "Welcome Aboard!" or anything, but couldn't they at least come up with something good? "Do no evil... wait, does that include making up halfhearted bullshit?"

Posted by Jim Treacher at October 28, 2004 11:19 AM
Comments

It's a shame that because of this decision, more people won't be exposed to Puce and the truth.

By the way, any word from him lately?

Posted by: MD2020 at October 28, 2004 11:39 AM

You're about to get hit by an Instalanche, who needs Google?

Posted by: Hubris at October 28, 2004 11:49 AM

By the way, I have found your Crimean War coverage to be incredibly biased.

Do you really think that Russian financial and trading groups had anything to do with causing the conflict? The Black Sea trade at that time was virtually nonexistent!

Posted by: Hubris at October 28, 2004 12:54 PM

Well, I'd click on the blogads, Jim, if only THE DAMN THINGS WOULD LOAD! They're getting as bad as sitemeter. I've been sitting here with a "loading images from blogads" status for the last 10 minutes, and I'm ready to chew nails and spit tacks...

Posted by: mojo at October 28, 2004 12:56 PM

I think that's more the Instalanche than the ads or Sitemeter. Plant your feet, soldier, we'll get through this.

Posted by: Jim Treacher at October 28, 2004 01:00 PM

"Lord Lyndhurst Lied! People died!"

"Hey! Hey! Tsar Nicholas I! How many people in Wallachia and Moldavia did you kill today!"

"No blood for Sevastopol!"

Posted by: jeremy in NYC at October 28, 2004 04:38 PM

WTF, how much more current of an event can Evangeline Lilly be?

Google's loss, bro.

Posted by: Vanessa at October 29, 2004 06:50 AM