Google Reader is one of the easiest to use RSS Readers currently available. The code is fairly light, thus allowing you to skim read 100s of RSS articles quickly. One of its many failings however, which I have pointed out previously was the lack of reporting subscriber counts to Feedburner.
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Google Groups Comment Spam
It crops up occasionally that people want to leave a comment with a reference to a Google webpage or a Google search result.
Unfortunately on a daily basis my server is hit with comment spam with links pointing to Google redirects, or Google subdomains.
Here are some examples:-
Due to all the spam, Google.com ends up on my domain blacklist, and a single URL occurrence will still allow it to be visible within my standard settings for comment moderation, as long there is no other specific penalties imposed by Spam Karma.
Multiple occurrences will end up buried amongst the spam, which is not something