My app Webcam Toy removed and marked as "spam"

[Paul Neave]

I have an app of the Chrome Web Store called "Webcam Toy". It has
nearly 200,000 users and an average rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars. But
yesterday it was removed from the store because it is, apparently,
"spam". Yes, that's right. Spam.

It's still available as a link here:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lfbgimoladefibpklnfmkpknadbklade
but it does not appear under search, nor in the list of available
apps. I attempted to resubmit the app but for some reason it was not
approved. Why on earth would be app be marked as "spam"? Can someone
please help?

Thank you,
Paul.

[Paul Neave]

It looks like that link to my app has actually been removed also (I'm
seeing a cached version of the page). Here's an screenshot instead:
http://i.imgur.com/kdk1b.png

So, great. My very popular app is "spam". Thanks Google!
Paul.

On Nov 17, 2:53 pm, Paul Neave <paul.ne...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have an app of the Chrome Web Store called "Webcam Toy". It has
> nearly 200,000 users and an average rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars. But
> yesterday it was removed from the store because it is, apparently,
> "spam". Yes, that's right. Spam.
>

> It's still available as a link here:https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lfbgimoladefibpklnfmkpknadb...

[Caleb Eggensperger]

It's working for me from both the link and through search. That doesn't answer the question of why it was removed, but hopefully it was just a temporary issue.

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[Paul Neave]

Google have restored the app now - panic over! The problem was due to
my app was not using a verified website as its author. It was flagged
as spam because of this policy:

"Do not post an app where the primary functionality is to link to a
website not owned by the developer." http://code.google.com/chrome/webstore/program_policies.html

Still, it was an odd and terse response from Google. They could have
notified me first and asked that I update the app information, rather
than removing the app completely and labeling it as "spam"!

Best,
Paul.

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