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By: Google Accounts Terminated: What Can You Do? | Kooshy - Sneaky Search Marketing

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:07:20 +0000

[...] deeply upsetting that Google has done this on more than one occasion and seems to have done nothing to rectify the issue. Personally, as I noted in the Sphinn [...]

By: Norm Jocham

Norm Jocham — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:36:29 +0000

It amazes me as to how some people automatically assume that there must be more. I can say that I have been suspended from adwords on my site, actually the best thing that happened to me, My other site that has never used adwords and is organically grown does substantially better. To this day I have not been able to find out why I was suspended, other than I was having a spam problem which was reported to Google and was told your problem not ours. So I think we tend to believe in the benevolence of large corps to much instead of realizing that they are for profit and not for your assisstance. When you have no defence and are assumed guilty and convicted by google there is no recourse .

By: ipod touch downloads

ipod touch downloads — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:30:19 +0000

What I want to know is why did you get shut down to begin with? Obviously you did something to receive this treatment. Tell us the whole truth, not just your version without all the facts.

By: Lucas McDonnell

Lucas McDonnell — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 06:02:42 +0000

That’s pretty scary stuff — but, as you said, the danger of letting a third party have all your information. Not to mention that when you sign up to use any company’s services, you usually silently give up most of your rights through agreeing to their EULA. The law’s on the company’s side, not yours.

By: Dr Marketing

Dr Marketing — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:31:03 +0000

Does anyone know a good way to backup all my Gmail emails? Dr Marketing's last blog post..Blog commenting and Akismet

By: Otilia Otlacan

Otilia Otlacan — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:46:06 +0000

@Jason: my braincell is in lunch break right now, so I’m not getting the math test reference…
Anyway, I understand now he was a premium Google Apps customer, thanks.
The article itself does not mention this, nor does it refer to the Apps program. It’s mentioned calling the ‘Google support’ – that’s way too broad a notion to understand that it was, in fact, support for Google Apps. As for the enumeration of services (unable to access his Gmail, Google Talk, Google Docs, or Picasa), these are available through any Google account.
Happy weekend everybody!

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By: jason

jason — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:35:52 +0000

almost fail your math test there….
” A paying customer for what? ” … the answer is out there….
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/editions.html

By: naaty

naaty — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:24:46 +0000

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By: Symbian

Symbian — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:53:22 +0000

Conclusion: don't use Big Brother tools anymore. Symbian's last blog post..Nokia Chat - new location based messenger

By: PS3

PS3 — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:24:06 +0000

I’ve had a bad week of similar problems.

Logged into Gmail from work and got a captcha that I’d never seen before. Filled that in and it came back, so I assumed I’d made a mistake. Tried again and it came up with the “account disable message”.

I knew I had the captcha right the second time and my heart sank – I was expecting a reasonable sum of Amazon vouchers into the account amongst other things.

By the time I got home everything was back to normal. Well, except for my Adwords account – they’d just taken a $50 top up payment, everything is showing as “active”, yet no ads displaying. Finally get a mail from Google saying my Adwords account is suspended, but no reason…what the…

That one is not resolved (:

By: Otilia Otlacan

Otilia Otlacan — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:42:31 +0000

“Saber was unable to access his Gmail, Google Talk, Google Docs, or Picasa–and he was a paying Google customer”

A paying customer for what? I can only think of AdWords, although there could be a couple more paid services (CSE, for example). I think it is wrong to start the argument against Google by stating that he was a paying customer… should the non-paying ones have any less rights? I don’t think so.
Google tends not to provide any explanation for closed accounts, true, and the rationale behind it is to avoid giving away what exactly it is they are tracking and taking into account when making such decisions.
While I’m not defending Google in any way, I really believe we need to know more in order to formulate an opinion. No smoke without a fire, that’s what I’m saying.

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By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:13:59 +0000

It’s getting mean and mean everytime !

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By: Nicole Price

Nicole Price — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:28:13 +0000

I am yet too small for this to affect me. But it is scary nevertheless. Best is perhaps not to depend on them for storage of data. Nicole Price's last blog post..Best Companies to Work for

By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:23:01 +0000

@tamar – that sucks about your account. Thanks for the book photo!

By: Tamar Weinberg

Tamar Weinberg — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:03:33 +0000

I actually encountered a "temporary suspension" 2 weeks ago (on 7/24). It lasted for all of 10 minutes, but it freaked me out. One minute, I was chatting on Gtalk -- the next minute, Gtalk died on me and so did Gmail. I logged back onto Gmail and got the same message that Nick received. I checked the help document and it started working. I panicked for a bit, and I can imagine it would suck if that actually happened to me for real. I still don't know why I got the temporary suspension, but I do have a screenshot of it: http://flickr.com/photos/pixelopera/2698728964/ Oh, and Andy, I was at Barnes and Noble today, and I saw Radically Transparent on the bookshelf! Face-front! See? Tamar Weinberg's last blog post..Is Viral Marketing for Everyone? An Interview with Language Trainers, Creators of the Accent Game

By: John Hunter

John Hunter — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:47:05 +0000

I agree, I wrote about this earlier when my gmail account was inaccessible. John Hunter's last blog post..Jumbo v. Regular Fixed Mortagage Rates: by Credit Score

By: Vacation Rentals By Owner

Vacation Rentals By Owner — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:37:28 +0000

It's really krappy the power companies have over you. I just lost my Facebook account last Friday for adding 40 friends in a day. That was it. No spaming, no nothing. Vacation Rentals By Owner's last blog post..PetFinder.com - Find The Perfect Pet For You

By: Google pissin’ on average folks all over it seems…boycott anyone?

Google pissin’ on average folks all over it seems…boycott anyone? — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:51:41 +0000

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By: IMNJ

IMNJ — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:37:25 +0000

I am amazing to me the pain Google can inflict in so many ways. With Google it seems to be live by the sword, die by the sword. IMNJ's last blog post..Trail Review: Monmouth Battlefield State Park