Google is down ????

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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 (fifteen years ago) link

/lol

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

^^^ expands to all funny URLs.

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

tech heads will roll

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

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 (eleven years ago) link

Works for me.

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


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