Google is down ????

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Google is down for everyone? Or is it just here (Spain)?

eldude, Monday, 21 November 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

working fine here, but there's a message from Bush saying the USA is going to invade Spain because your traditional Tapas serving sizes are too small for American appetites. Better put more mushrooms on those tiny plates or face the wrath of our Military Might!

biz, Monday, 21 November 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

Free up the jamon, Spain. The rest of the world needs fine cured meat.

detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 21 November 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

is back! I have seen they had problems in Italy ... maybe because of the pizzas?

eldude, Monday, 21 November 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

no, Italy was targeted because the impossible to maintain FIAT's. we're tired of relying on slogans like Fix It Again Tony (F.I.A.T.) to keep our minds off of how much money those cute little Italian cars are to maintain. Oh, that politician they had that was also a porn star sends the wrong message to the kids. For these and other secret reasons, Italy will continue to be plagued with intermittent google access issues.

biz, Monday, 21 November 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

Anyone else getting "This site may harm your computer" StopBadWare warnings from Google for every search?

Alba, Saturday, 31 January 2009 14:44 (seventeen years ago)

yep.

Merdeyeux, Saturday, 31 January 2009 14:45 (seventeen years ago)

me too!

Jack Battery-Pack, Saturday, 31 January 2009 14:46 (seventeen years ago)

Same here.

Marty Innerlogic, Saturday, 31 January 2009 14:53 (seventeen years ago)

i cant go anywhere on google, how is it that I am here?

CaptainLorax, Saturday, 31 January 2009 14:54 (seventeen years ago)

google books and google scholar are still working...

someone messed up!

Jack Battery-Pack, Saturday, 31 January 2009 14:54 (seventeen years ago)

ohhh, I can use other search engines... interesting

CaptainLorax, Saturday, 31 January 2009 14:55 (seventeen years ago)

hahah weird

Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 31 January 2009 14:56 (seventeen years ago)

Google still works - you just have to paste the url it finds into your address bar.

I think their StopBadWare software is very bust.

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=this+site+may+harm+your+computer

Alba, Saturday, 31 January 2009 14:57 (seventeen years ago)

it's just a bit weird that it's been broken for 30 minutes and no-one at google seems to have either turned it off or fixed it...

Jack Battery-Pack, Saturday, 31 January 2009 15:04 (seventeen years ago)

Maybe fixing it is hard!

Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 31 January 2009 15:06 (seventeen years ago)

Maybe Google has been taken over by terrorists.

Alba, Saturday, 31 January 2009 15:06 (seventeen years ago)

or microsoft

Jack Battery-Pack, Saturday, 31 January 2009 15:09 (seventeen years ago)

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.

confusingly unpleasant (libcrypt), Saturday, 31 January 2009 17:34 (seventeen years ago)

/lol

ice cr?m, Saturday, 31 January 2009 17:35 (seventeen years ago)

^^^ expands to all funny URLs.

confusingly unpleasant (libcrypt), Saturday, 31 January 2009 17:39 (seventeen years ago)

tech heads will roll

Aimless, Saturday, 31 January 2009 19:30 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

Is google.ca down right now? google.com redirects to there for me, and then it never finishes loading. google.co.uk and others work.

abanana, Sunday, 11 November 2012 23:07 (thirteen years ago)

Works for me.

if, Sunday, 11 November 2012 23:09 (thirteen years ago)


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