Google Gets Honest - Then Changes Mind
In one of the most honest moves in Google’s history, Google admitted to their own customers that their own site is bad and can be used to harm your computer. Don’t believe me?
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Okay, okay, so it was just one of the worst tested code rollouts in history, they weren’t actually admitting it (at least not on purpose). The site couldn’t handle the load, and there was a bug. But it sure is funny and ironic since really they are the top rated worst offender yet I highly doubt they will be blocking their own IP space again. At least not on purpose.
hypocrisy [hi-pok-ruh-see] (n) - when living up to your own standards simply won’t do. 
January 31st, 2009 at 10:43 am
LOL
January 31st, 2009 at 10:51 am
Nice post
I was amused by Google today and a bit scared :/
January 31st, 2009 at 11:06 am
Rough!
January 31st, 2009 at 11:59 am
This is what I’ve been saying for a long time, that was google working. Now it’s broken again
January 31st, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Hey guys, I don’t think Google is rolling out such inexperience code like that. The StopBadware.org is likely the cause, as it timeouts for each malware query from Google, hence misclassifying everything as malware.
Here’s an outage : http://eajournal.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/google-search-errors-created-from-stopbadwareorg-outage/
Anyway, food for thought, this thing actually brought the Internet to a partial halt when users freak out ( yea I got a lot of non-tech commoners calling me ) they got infected, globally. People just don’t know where to start other than Google.
Now how many such point of failures are there?
Or we can think about the legal consequences …?
January 31st, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Ahhh. Got it. the new update. =) so it was some human error. And wowa, is Google one of the biggest DDoS out there? =)
January 31st, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Why does Google feel they have to be the Internet police anyway?