Last week we posted about a BlogSpot user who claimed Google informed him that he could not use an MSN Search box on his Blogger blog. A post on Blogger Buzz says they never contacted the blogger and that they do allow users to run non-Google services on Blogger blogs -- just not on the Blogger navbar.
1. You have always been able to run non-Google services on your blog. In the same way you can use Yahoo's Flickr to post photos to your blog, you can include an MSN Search box in your template. We consider it a violation of the terms to modify the Blogger navbar, but that's not what was reported to have happened here.
2. We did not send a request to have the MSN Search box removed. We reviewed the information that's been made available, and we found no such request from our support teams.
3 .We did not delete nor remove the blog in question from Blog*Spot.
It is good to see that Blogger Buzz is keeping up with blogosphere news.