Saturday
Jan312009
Google Hates Us All
Saturday, January 31, 2009 at 7:12AM 
I guess I know what the topic will be on the radio show today.
UPDATE: Google’s response is here. Seems that someone left a slash ‘/’ on a line by itself in the list of spyware sites – which means all sites were flagged.The problem occurred from 6:30 to 7:25 Pacific Saturday morning.
This is an incredibly stupid error and shows how vulnerable the net is. Also, where do I turn off phishing filtering in my Google results?
Reader Comments (18)
What's that all about...OK, I'll listen and find out. (^_^)
I was looking up macros for WoW and thought it was a legitimate warning, then I noticed my own site had the warning and finally noticed that all search results had it.
Screenshot of Google kicking Google (Dutch) here: http://www.voelspriet2.nl/forum/index.php/topic%2C9078.0.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.voelspriet2.nl/forum/index.php/topic...
Didn't last long but was definitely impressive. I enjoyed checking out Cali Lewis' live "Breaking News" cast on UStream and followig Leo's tweats. I especially enjoyed Leo's comment: Carol Bratz was behind this.
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people, check this too plz. Normally http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic is alive - it detects if there is malware. After the /-debacle I tried to type in some sites I remembered that were blocked by Google, like astalavista. But none of them where blocked now. So I took some URL's from http://stopbadware.org" rel="nofollow">stopbadware.org (this is how Google decides which URL to block). Guess what, they aren't blocked. Theory: GOogle fixed the problem, but gave us a new one? Plz try to find a site that is categorized as harmful by Google and post it here.. If you can't find one, post it too :)
I bet the person who made the typo feels like a real idiot. Possibly unemployed now. I do wonder how something like this could happen.
I thought they were up to their April Fools antics early this year when this happened.
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I was doing a image search and when I clicked on the image that message came up.Awwwful.
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If you were using Chrome, which scans every site you go to automatically for malware, it was an even worse problem.
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Just wanted to tell you that I listen via itunes from Turin, Italy every day......we are huge fans - including hubby who is learning english and loves to hear you speak!
hmmm don't know if i just posted or not....anyway, wanted to tell you that we listen via itunes from Italy every day - hubby is learning english and loves to hear you speak...! I already speak english (;-) and am learning lots about technoiserie!! Bravo!
Absolutely unreal how they would just push their spyware list live without checking it in some way.
i remember hearing how a typo as microsoft nearly brought down the net because someone set the TTL to low
i wonder how this will affect the world economy if google stops working for a week
Honestly, I think that Google really needs to invest in several test servers to test new script before they push it to everyone and everything.
I agree completely!