Hi everyone

Since this is currently the most popular forum at the mo I'll post it in here. can you all check google for searches to see if any of your results are showing the following message:

 

This site may harm your computer.

 

even coldplay's official site and amazon show it. I think Google is actually broken, someone’s committed some broken code, whoops. :rolleyes:

 

http://robaldred.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/malware_google.jpg

That was coming up on google when I was using it about ten minutes ago, but not now... :confused:

yeah i've been trying to get to torrent pages but it's been saying it's harmful... :thinking:

crazy thing. I thought thats just my computer :thinking:

whats going on there!? :inquisitive:

thats really strange.

 

edit: its gone now!

Twitter completely exploded with panic after Google broke down:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=google

 

Funny to see :)

I do not get the message :confused:

Google blacklists entire internet

 

Glitch causes world's most popular search engine to classify all web pages as dangerous

 

Google placed the internet on a blacklist today after a mistake caused every site in the search engine's result pages to be marked as potentially harmful and dangerous.

 

The problem affected internet pages across the whole planet, and lasted for around 40 minutes before engineeers were able to fix it.

 

The glitch centred on Google's malware detector, which is designed to keep internet users from visiting sites Google believes may install malicious software when users browse them. Google blamed "human error" when an engineer tried to add one web address to the list of those deemed suspicious, and mistakenly added them all.

 

"We periodically receive updates to that list and received one such update to release on the site this morning. Unfortunately (and here's the human error), the URL of '/' was mistakenly checked in as a value to the file and '/' expands to all URLs. Fortunately, our on-call site reliability team found the problem quickly and reverted the file," Google said in its official blog.

 

The incident occurred at around 2.40pm.

 

Apart from lost advertising revenue – which one expert estimated at $2-3m (£1.4-2m) – the incident is embarrassing for the world's most popular search engine, known for its reliability.

 

Users across the globe were puzzled as all searches were met with the warning: "This site may harm your computer."

 

A spokesman for Google said: "A lot of people were woken up in California when the problem broke. Clearly Google was labelling every website as malware."

 

Google's paid search results appeared not to have been affected.

 

Caroline Davies

guardian.co.uk, Saturday 31 January 2009 18.13 GMT

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/31/google-blacklist-internet

the BBC got themselves a good piccie for their article!

 

^hahaha

Oooops. Somebody got fired today :P

i noticed that too, even my igoogle kept getting an error message when i clicked on anything for a while. it's fixed now, though, it seems :P

Oooops. Somebody got fired today :P

MSN would hire him in a heartbeat. After all, he did come closer to destroying Google than anybody ever has. :P

the BBC got themselves a good piccie for their article!

 

that must go on FAILBLOG!!:stunned:

I heard about this on the news today :lol:

 

the irony of that pic is just priceless

moved to ... erm, the IT forum now :)

Yes, I thought my computer had a virus or something... :stunned:

 

By the way, it's me or Youtube is having problems too? :confused:

like what?

like what?

I can't see the page, no vids too... :confused:

Have you tried hitting it with a hammer?

Must have typed google into google! That can break the internet that!

Must have typed google into google! That can break the internet that!

 

Nothing can break the internet.

 

The world wide web on the other-hand can be broken.

Have you ever seen the actual "internet"?

 

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