Google is broken [Archive]

divine

31-01-2009, 16:15

Just in case any of you are panicking that you've infected your computer with something, google is in fact broken for everyone and every link is blocked with the harmful site warning.

Davey_Pitch

31-01-2009, 16:17

Yeah, I noticed that a few minutes ago. I'm sure it'll all be sorted out in a couple of hours.

Kell_ee001

31-01-2009, 16:23

Fine here :)

divine

31-01-2009, 16:24

They fixed it about 2 minutes ago :p

Kell_ee001

31-01-2009, 16:45

They fixed it about 2 minutes ago :p

Point proven then :p

Beansprout

31-01-2009, 17:47

I was searching for the Ariel website at the time and was most confused :D

Piggymon

31-01-2009, 18:01

I was searching for village halls ;D

Pheebs

31-01-2009, 20:37

Ahhh I thought it was our laptop!

Hehehe!

Garp

31-01-2009, 21:41

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2009/01/google-broke-the-internet-malware-detector-went-haywire.ars

quick article on what went wrong.

Beansprout

31-01-2009, 23:49

Tomorrow's news story when no search results show up for anything - "Sorry, there was an rm -rf in the search file...we've deleted the internet!"

Blighter

01-02-2009, 00:01

I wonder if they back their indexes up :p

Beansprout

01-02-2009, 00:09

Do you know how much space it would need....there's no room for another internet! :D

Blighter

01-02-2009, 00:11

I bet they have some sort of worldwide cluster thing set up :)

divine

01-02-2009, 00:42

Doubtful, I expect it's all held on a couple of machines in some dudes bedroom in an area prone to power cuts.

Blighter

01-02-2009, 00:44

Doubtful, I expect it's all held on a couple of machines in some dudes bedroom in an area prone to power cuts.

Backed up on 3.5in floppy disks...