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[Outage] Google is broken!

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    #32
    Supercell
    Registered Users Posts: 15,401 ✭✭✭✭Supercell


    Random wrote: »
    The guy did that in the first post?


    Quickly, sell your Google shares !

    Doh!!, serves me right for jumping to the end!!
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    #33
    Random
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,080 ✭✭✭✭Random


    Hi, my name is John. I'm a recovering Google user. This problem has been going on for almost twenty minutes now. My hands are starting to shake. My eyes are blurry. I've had to quit my job. Where are we get refuge? Who will take us in?


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    #34
    ste88m
    Registered Users Posts: 169 ✭✭ste88m


    Thank f##k. Back to normal!


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    #35
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Never before in the histroy of man....eh ...Google have so many google related threads being made ;)


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    #36
    cherryghost
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,133 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    argh its doing it again... what now!!?

    yahoo?? pfffft as if!?

    alta vista? ugh....

    *breaks down and chucks cactus across the room*

    HOW COULD YOU GOOGLE!!!?


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    #37
    Random
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,080 ✭✭✭✭Random


    Is this a marketing ploy by Google? Those that use it will continue to use it because it gives them something to talk about. Those who've never heard of it will say "what's Google" and by the time they work out the URL Google is back up and working !


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    #38
    cherryghost
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,133 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    oh. its ok now.

    *picks up smashed cactus*


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    #39
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,197 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Was it just happening with Mozilla?
    When I tried it in IE it worked OK, but it may have coincided with the fixing of it. Any IE users (are there any still out there?) get this error?


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    #40
    Random
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,080 ✭✭✭✭Random


    Random wrote: »
    Hi, my name is John. I'm a recovering Google user. This problem has been going on for almost twenty minutes now. My hands are starting to shake. My eyes are blurry. I've had to quit my job. Where are we get refuge? Who will take us in?
    Dear HR Manager,

    You may recently have received a rather abrupt email from someone claiming to be me suggesting that you do something rather unsanitary with my job.

    I would like to assure you that this was not in fact me and that I am fully aware that the world is not about to come to a premature end.

    I look forward to seeing you in work on Monday morning.

    Kind Regards
    John Smith

    Manager


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    #41
    minxie
    Registered Users Posts: 4,064 ✭✭✭minxie


    works fine for me with mozilla
    not with internet explorer tho.
    whats going on??


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    #42
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Because of google mishap I have reached my 200th thanks mark , thanks to cabaal and cheeryghost :):D






    random makes it 201


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    #43
    fuzzsc00ta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 54 ✭✭fuzzsc00ta


    try clearing your cache


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    #44
    garimac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 38 ✭garimac


    seems to be ok again


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    #45
    minxie
    Registered Users Posts: 4,064 ✭✭✭minxie


    found this: http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=5779


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    #46
    Random
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,080 ✭✭✭✭Random


    minxie1 wrote: »
    found this: http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=5779
    Google whitelisting lol :D


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    #47
    Techbot
    Registered Users Posts: 29 ✭Techbot


    I thought I was being paying the price for ignoring the warning the first time.


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    #48
    wheresmybeaver
    Registered Users Posts: 1,120 ✭✭✭wheresmybeaver


    This is what happens when you type google into google. You can break the internet.


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    #49
    pug_
    Registered Users Posts: 636 ✭✭✭pug_


    http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-on.html
    If you did a Google search between 6:30 a.m. PST and 7:25 a.m. PST this morning, you likely saw that the message "This site may harm your computer" accompanied each and every search result. This was clearly an error, and we are very sorry for the inconvenience caused to our users.

    What happened? Very simply, human error. Google flags search results with the message "This site may harm your computer" if the site is known to install malicious software in the background or otherwise surreptitiously. We do this to protect our users against visiting sites that could harm their computers. We work with a non-profit called StopBadware.org to get our list of URLs. StopBadware carefully researches each consumer complaint to decide fairly whether that URL belongs on the list. Since each case needs to be individually researched, this list is maintained by humans, not algorithms.

    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. 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.

    Thanks to our team for their quick work in finding this. And again, our apologies to any of you who were inconvenienced this morning, and to site owners whose pages were incorrectly labelled. We will carefully investigate this incident and put more robust file checks in place to prevent it from happening again.

    Thanks for your understanding.

    Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP, Search Products & User Experience


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    #50
    mobby
    Registered Users Posts: 1,158 ✭✭✭mobby


    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7862840.stm


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