The steps Blogger has taken to combat blog spam has made life incredibly difficult for those of us who may want to get off blogspot, but aren’t spamming. And simultaneously, it’s not difficult for the spammers to still accomplish their goals…

One of the rules in search engine optimization is to use permanent redirects to guide search engines from old URLs to new URLs, but Ask.com doesn’t observe them - or more precisely their implementation of them is completely wacked.