Google gagged: ‘Some sort of freakout’
p2pnet news view | Cool:- Did Google just blow a fuse?
“Apparently google is undergoing some sort of freakout this AM,” says a post on a list I’m on, continuing »»»
Every search all over the planet is returning
Warning – visiting this web site may harm your computer!
Suggestions:
⢠Return to the previous page and pick another result.
⢠Try another search to find what you’re looking for.
Or you can continue to [whatever] at your own risk. For detailed information about the problems we found, visit Google’sSafe Browsing diagnostic page for this site.
“I just had the same problem you’re talking about in Dubai,” said someone else.
There was no problem here in Canada when I went for a look, but shortly after, dowling posted on Slashdot »»»
It looks like for the moment at least, all Google results are failing the malware checks and being listed with a warning ‘This site may harm your computer,’ including all pages from Google themselves. Users trying to visit pages at search results will only be able to proceed via manual manipulation of the search result link to remove the Google click-through (which is also broken). Until Google fixes this bug, it looks Google web search is useless.
However, apparently, whatever caused the event has been dealt with and everything is back to normal.
Or is it? (Evil laughter)
Jon
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January 31st, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Yes, it is
. Google has been down since 14:39 and only come back online at about 15:15-15:20 (GMT). Without Google, it didn’t feel like the internet anymore — they should be a bit faster acting next time – I almost switched to Yahoo! !
-Brendon.
January 31st, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Human error, someone accidentally marked down “/” as malware. Too bad “/” is essentially “*” in URLs
January 31st, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Actually, I was at work at the time and actually HAD to switch to Yahoo to get my work done. I cringed!
February 1st, 2009 at 10:53 pm
What they don’t tell you is that it was marking conservative/Republican sites primarily. Looks like Google jumped the gun on one of O Face’s programs. Typical Google. Typical liberals. Free play of ideas, right guys? Freedom of speech, right? Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:45 am
tsk tsk tsk
i don’t remember MSN ever having this problem. go microsoft!