News Google's "human error" blacklists 'net

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2009/02/02/googles-human-error-blacklists-net/1

"Human error" is blamed for a glitch at Google that saw the site warning users that the entire internet could "harm your computer" for half an hour on Saturday.

 

First- and no I didn't even notice it, 30min is too small of a time frame. Anyone know how many hits they got during the down time?

 

Please don't bother stating you're first to post in a news thread... Ever- and no I didn't notice either. I don't use services such as that unless I'm browsing outside my circle of webpages, which is quite rare. In my experience, the only time I've come across malicious pages is when I'm searching for something illegal, eg cracks, which makes me feel like I've got my just desserts

 

30min was PR speaking.... it was more then a few hours......

 

4th! Anyway I got hit by this, can't remember what I was searching for but it confused the hell out of me until I gave up and looked at porn.

 

Lol my friend couldn`t figure out why google kept telling him that HP`s site were malicious, now we know why

 

why, just why?!?!


bizarely when i tried to use it during that time it seemed to work fine

 

I experienced this. I guessed it was a Google blunder and not the end of the world as we know it

 

LOL... I had friends that thought that it was the end of the world... like a global war or something... I believe that new cults have been created after this Google fail... lol...

 

Last (sorry, couldn't resist it)- I think this whole thing is actually a credit to google, as the only reason there is so much discussion surrounding this, is that in over ten years, google has never had a major **** up or significant downtime (at least, not that I know of)

How many other sites have that kind of track record?

 

Not to mention Google is pretty much the only internet service everybody uses.

 

Ok who googled google?!?! I lay full blame on you

 

I never got that error-message, but i noticed that web-search was down while every other search worked normally.
I did think it was the end of the wourld though.

 

I had serveral phone calls from confused family members over the weekend stating that there computers had a virus infection, upon asking them to actually read the message google was returning it turns out this glitch was the problem!