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  1. 31-01-2009 03:14 PM #16
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    Anyone e-mailed The Register yet?
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    Oooh, got a new google error when trying to follow a link...
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  3. 31-01-2009 03:17 PM #18
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    Quote Originally Posted by maniac View Post
    Anyone e-mailed The Register yet?
    Couldn't resist... but it looks like they've fixed it now.
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  4. 31-01-2009 03:18 PM #19
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    Quote Originally Posted by tmcd35 View Post
    Oooh, got a new google error when trying to follow a link...
    They probably killed the malware alerter.
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    Google working again...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gatt View Post
    Google working again...


    Half an hour of Saturday afternoon fun!
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  7. 31-01-2009 03:35 PM #22
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    I expect someone at Google is getting a bit of a telling off now. I wonder how much revenue they lose with a half hour effective outage like that? Someone somewhere will work it out I'm sure!
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    I'd like to see their advertising revenue for the last half hour... I suspect it may just have cost the company a few million
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    It seems they may have got a bit frantic turning various things off and back on, the ads disappeared temporarily, and once they got to work the malicious software messages disappeared and reappeared.
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    According to this site, there is a very similar problem affecting GMail right now. I don;t have an account so can't check.
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    Right, who was it who typed 'google' into google, thereby breaking the internet for half an hour.
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    I was doing a search for something earlier and thought to myself that Google is silly for marking every site with these particular search terms as unsafe... but now it makes sense.
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    Quote Originally Posted by torledo View Post
    Right, who was it who typed 'google' into google, thereby breaking the internet for half an hour.
    I guess my earlier screenshot makes me guilty...

    I'll get my coat...
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    Quote Originally Posted by NeoPlosive View Post
    I guess my earlier screenshot makes me guilty...

    I'll get my coat...
    Hold on a minute... it couldn't have been me!

    Google has said the following with regards to today's earlier spot of fun/mayhem.

    Google Blames Human Error for Malware Warning Mistake
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    looks like someone checked the APPLY ALL box. We've all been there.
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