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So, can anyone reach google.com right now? I am getting timeouts, argh.
Anyone know of a website that uses google search results, like yahoo used to? (Ie, really the same search, but on a site that might be up right now...)

― lyra (lyra), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 03:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I feel a sad & empty void in my webbrowser without google. :-(

― lyra (lyra), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 03:16 (twenty-two years ago)

it's back!

― lyra (lyra), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)

it is probably something to do with your net connection, or net traffic in your area. i load google immediately.

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, but the weird thing is that yahoo loaded immediately. well, maybe yahoo is co-located somewhere that wasn't affected; i don't really know if both google & yahoo have their datacenters in CA.

― lyra (lyra), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 03:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't Yahoo not using Google any more? Ironically, I'm just talking without having looked it up, so don't mind me.

― jazz odysseus, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 03:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, Yahoo only just stopped using google. That's why I said "a website that uses google search results, like yahoo used to" --> I think that it's still lisenced out to other companies, but I don't really know who those websites are off the top of my head.

― lyra (lyra), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 03:32 (twenty-two years ago)

regardless, google was crap for what i wanted anyway. I was looking for something more on the prescription I'm taking, and all google had was "free doctor-less prescriptions click here!!!! overnight shipping!!!" ad websites all over the results. so sad to see they're gaming it so well now. :-(

― lyra (lyra), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 03:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I lost google for a while too, lyra

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 03:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I think MS is putting google-eating worms into the local cables

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 03:37 (twenty-two years ago)

MS is taking over the pacific northwest! arrgh, run for your lives!!!

― lyra (lyra), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 03:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Everyone will be using the Starbuck's search engine by 2007 anyway, so it's all futile.

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 05:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Lyra, does Google always do that? My mother has some evil adware on her computer that causes the first page of Google results to be replaced by a bunch of ads like that.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 05:48 (twenty-two years ago)

that's spyware, and it's nothing to do with google - it just mimics the look of the google pages. try http://www.lavasoft.com/ or http://security.kolla.de/index.php?lang=en&page=news for software that will get rid of it.

― 123, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I run Safari on a mac & have only downloaded a few unix tools to it, so I doubt it's spyware. If I search for anything else, it's fine, so I think it's just the "Fr33 Vi4gAH!!" spam folks taking on google as well.

― lyra (lyra), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Google.com isn't working for me right now. Anyone else having problems?

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

None.

If you're unsure where the problem is, try another site like google.com.au

― Crankypants (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

I'm having problems with Gmail, but Google search seems to work.

― something about dan aykroyd coming out of a coconut (deangulberry), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

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