[nextstep]

For a post titled "How I Lost Access to my Google Account today" this article does a terrible job explaining how he lost access to his account. Was it just a totally random alorithmic error? The guy doesn't even have a theory about what he might of done?

[ehsanakhgari]

This is the main thing which sucks about all this. I still don't have any clue on why this happened. The "how" is exactly how I explained it: I woke up this morning, and my account was disabled.

[jedc]

Here's a link that might be helpful:

http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&a...

[jedc]

Here's a link that might be helpful: http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&a...

[jedc]

http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&a...

[krelian]

>Was it just a totally random alorithmic error? The guy doesn't even have a theory about what he might of done?

I lost my adwords account one day, I wasn't even using it at the time. From what I gathered from support I lost it because a year and half earlier I had run two ads that were against the TOS. These ads were running for a total of 4 hours BTW and were of course approved by Google before going online.

I have no idea how they tune their algorithm so recklessly. I posted about it on HN before and someone brought up the idea (from experience) that the landing pages I used (I did not own the landing pages) were changed during those 18 months to something that is against the TOS and my account was flagged because I had used them in the past.