The Great Google Goof Up! (SCREENSHOT INCLUDED)

31Jan2009 Filed under: Google Stuff Author: Nischal Shetty

If you are quick enough then you might just be able to witness a phenomenon never to happen again (or so we all Google fans hope)

Do any search on Google and you would see

"This site may harm your computer " warning!

I’ll update what the Google guys have to say on this soon.

Update 1: The goof up seems to have been corrected. I’m posting a screenshot I had taken when I encountered this problem.

Click the image to enlarge.

Update 2 : Google Says It’s Human Error caused by the StopBadWare.org team.

Update 3 : StopBadWare.org says its not their fault!

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Web White Noise - WWN
February 1st, 2009 at 2:32 am

Google Fail!…

Thats right, Google just fell over.

And no, my typeing ‘Google’ into Google didn’t cause it, any search I conduct returns the results with every single page link having the message “This site……
JAB_au
February 1st, 2009 at 2:33 am

Yes it all comes down to someone putting a ‘/’ into a file that shouldn’t have been there.
Nischal Shetty
February 1st, 2009 at 2:37 am

@WWN

Yeah, it was for any search you conducted. Google started considering every site on the internet as malware!

@JAB_au

Yeah, so says the google blog.

Not only were sites marked as harmful, even mails that were delivered during this time in Gmail were sent to your spam folder!
Kenneth Watt
February 1st, 2009 at 11:54 am

Same problems for me. But the gMail error was not related to the search one! See full article:
http://www.technofinger.com/yet-another-google-problem