Google may harm your computer?
Published Saturday, January 31, 2009 by Gautam Kishore | E-mail this post
Something very unseen and unexpected is happening around the web while I am writing this post. I searched for some term on mighty Google.com and all the results came with "
This site may harm your computer" link. I tried searching same text on some other computers and operating systems and even gave a call to few friends to check it. It is returning the same erratic result set. I searched for the term "Google" and the result is (Screenshot below)
Then I clicked on the 1st result which was google.com itself and the page opened was
What the heck? Google is hacked or is it some stupid mistake by googlers. This event looks like a solar eclipse in the world of Internet to me. I hope we get an explanation soon and the error fixed.
Update 1: Just now, the bug was fixed and it started behaving properly after more than an hour's erratic behavior. Are we getting an explanation, Google?
Update 2: And, here comes the
explanation from Google ;) . A human error.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-on.htmlLabels: Google Inc., Hacked, Search
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