tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89555504840733061252011-09-29T02:40:36.801+03:00Omar Basawadnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8955550484073306125.post-69141637531332362622008-07-29T07:44:00.003+03:002011-09-25T09:59:51.870+03:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Wow! <a href="http://www.google.com/" style="font-weight: bold;">Google</a> is amazing!<br /><br />Two days ago, I decided to change the blog URL for <a href="http://omar-basawad.blogspot.com/" style="font-weight: bold;">this site</a> to one that's compatible and suitable to its title and posts. It's some thing that I have been intending to do for a long time, but always put off as I knew that by changing the URL - I would lose my regular visitors, and the site would have to start afresh to be indexed by Search Engines.<br /><br />The next day, that's: yesterday, I was shocked to discover that some one else had hijacked my previous URL and was using it in a way I found very disgusting; worse - the site had my name as its title. After some thought, I decided to report the matter to Google through their <a href="http://help.blogger.com/"><b>Blogger Help Center</b></a>. And incredibly, Google - as always: helpful and seamlessly efficient - did take instant action and removed the imposter's site; making it possible for me to reclaim it here.<br /><br />Thanks Google!<br /><br />This has been a very good lesson for me. And I do advice any one else, to take care when deleting a blog or changing its URL; Blogger settings allows the user to easily change the URL for a blog. Be careful doing that. There are people who seem to have nothing to do, but use the Internet in very disruptive and wasteful ways; they have no ethics whatsoever.<br /><br />Anyway: this site, except for the URL, has now moved to <a href="http://safarinotes.blogspot.com/"><i><b>safarinotes dot blogspot dot com</b></i></a>. All my previous posts remain the same. As for this site, I might continue using it later if I can have the time and can think of some other issues or subjects worthy to be spending time on.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8955550484073306125-6914163753133236262?l=omar-basawad.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Omar Basawadnoreply@blogger.com