torledo Posted January 31, 2009 Posted January 31, 2009 Right, who was it who typed 'google' into google, thereby breaking the internet for half an hour.
Edu-IT Posted January 31, 2009 Posted January 31, 2009 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.
NeoPlosive Posted January 31, 2009 Posted January 31, 2009 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...
NeoPlosive Posted January 31, 2009 Posted January 31, 2009 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
torledo Posted January 31, 2009 Posted January 31, 2009 looks like someone checked the APPLY ALL box. We've all been there.
CyberNerd Posted January 31, 2009 Posted January 31, 2009 slashdot here: Slashdot | Google Search Flagging Everything As Potentially Harmful
maniac Posted January 31, 2009 Posted January 31, 2009 looks like someone checked the APPLY ALL box. We've all been there. Not so far from the truth. Official Google Blog We periodically update that list and released one such update to 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. Since we push these updates in a staggered and rolling fashion, the errors began appearing between 6:27 a.m. and 6:40 a.m. and began disappearing between 7:10 and 7:25 a.m., so the duration of the problem for any particular user was approximately 40 minutes.
GrumbleDook Posted January 31, 2009 Posted January 31, 2009 erm ... has any seen Geoff today? Have they finally found his rogue connection to them?
PEO Posted January 31, 2009 Posted January 31, 2009 PFY must be hard at work on the google servers!!! Yep I got the same error message as the orig poster. I just closed the browser and started again
Sylv3r Posted January 31, 2009 Posted January 31, 2009 BBC report it here as well. BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Human error' hits Google search
IanT Posted February 1, 2009 Posted February 1, 2009 haha I had this earlier and then about 5mins later I had my MOTHER on the phone saying "My Laptop has a virus help!!!!"......................."No mother calm down its just a google thing, chill!!"................awwww mums
powdarrmonkey Posted February 1, 2009 Posted February 1, 2009 Hahaaa, total fail! In the revised blog post, Google clarified that they were responsible for introducing the mistake on the list today — accidentally adding “the URL of ‘/’ ” to the list — which caused all sites to be flagged as potentially harmful.
RabbieBurns Posted February 1, 2009 Posted February 1, 2009 Google mistakes entire web for malware • The Register
Jacques Posted February 1, 2009 Posted February 1, 2009 Briefly saw that last night, then it was fixed. Never trust these HUMANS! You should see what they get upto in our school!!
antoeknee Posted February 1, 2009 Posted February 1, 2009 Was busy doing some searching when this happened. Bit puzzled at first but when my 2 other machines did the same it was likey a Google issue. Was fun to see that a search for Google can back with the error too. I have the student home page set to Google so was hoping that it would be sorted before Monday ir it was a quick change to the KIX file.
mighty.grey.eagle Posted February 1, 2009 Posted February 1, 2009 I found this other search engine - I think it's called YAHOO and it doesn't find any problems.
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