If you remember, you probably do not, Google banned one of my blogs because it was spammy, i.e., I had links to another site.  They told me that they consider it spam if you build a site with the sole purpose of pushing another site up in ranks.  It was a blogger.com site.  It was not built for that purpose.  I do have a blogger.com blog that exists only to give a bunch of other sites a link or 10.  Google did not mind that one.  Just the one I used for testing things.  

Anyway, months later, a human over-ruled their spiders and algorithms and now my blog is active again.  Except that I got used to not having it and replaced it with another one where I do my testing.  But not a blogger.com, of course.

Conclusion: Google still sucks, in slow motion, in bombastic, explosive motion and any way in-between.  Then need to fire their spiders and hire a better set.  Perhaps local spiders?

(And you thought I'd lost my sense of humor!)