Blogger Problems

For much of the past week Blogger has been plagued with problems of one sort or another. Their publishing went down several times, and at one point actual individual Blogspot sites were unavailable.

Today was the worst, however. Blogger was unavailable for most of the day, and their staus page is blaming the recurring issues on faulty hardware.

Blogger is owned by Google. Instead of shelling out over a billion bucks for YouTube.com, shouldn't Larry and Sergey have instead used that money to fix their existing businesses? After all, if you keep pissing off the customers you already have, you're less likely to get new ones.