[Outage] Google is broken!

Stevek101 · 31-01-2009 2:52pm #1

Is it just me or is every website marked as harmful at the minute in Google?

Rich1691 · 31-01-2009 2:53pm

Ya thats happening me aswell, it warns me everytime I open a page, It only started happening in the past 20minutes for me.

31-01-2009 2:54pm

Same here, I am in Galway.

samhail · 31-01-2009 2:54pm

hmmm new stuff to come.

or are google trying to tell us not to use their site

Tannylan · 31-01-2009 2:55pm

Same their Google just gone like the Banks (Fu>ked up)

Rich1691 · 31-01-2009 2:55pm

Its happening with almost everything!

Cabaal · 31-01-2009 2:55pm

Somebody using Zonealarm or something?

[EDIT] Actually its doing same here, and this is on an IP outside of Ireland
It links to http://www.google.ie/support/bin/answer.py?answer=45449&topic=360&hl=en&sa=X&oi=malwarewarninglink&resnum=1&ct=help which is a 502 server error

I'd say there testing something and its gone pear shaped

susanna · 31-01-2009 2:55pm

I'm having this problem too, I've just changed my homepage to yahoo instead. Very strange.

pug_ · 31-01-2009 2:55pm

Looks like someone in google messed up big time.

Denis Irwin · 31-01-2009 2:56pm

Happening to me as well. Yahoo is working ok.

samhail · 31-01-2009 2:56pm

hahaha... what happens when anyone clicks on that link ?

its timing out for me...

they probably are gonna crash that web server if they are telling *everyone* who is using google that their sites may harm their PC.
everyone is clicking on it

gnxx · 31-01-2009 2:57pm

Also getting the problem with google.nl.

I'm guessing that somebody has used a bot to report the entire Internet as suspect.

Stevek101 wrote: »

Is it just me or is every website marked as harmful at the minute in Google?

samhail · 31-01-2009 2:57pm

Actually...
Is that "Add a result - See all my SearchWiki notes - See all notes for this SearchWiki - Learn more"
under the search results new ?

i think i would have noticed something that says add a result.

...

and search within results ?
are they doin a big bang release - or have i just been asleep searching google recently

pug_ · 31-01-2009 2:58pm

samhail wrote: »

hahaha... what happens when anyone clicks on that link ?

its timing out for me...

they probably are gonna crash that web server if they are telling *everyone* who is using google that their sites may harm their PC.
everyone is clicking on it

Doesn't quite time out, I eventually got this error...

Server Error
The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request.

Please try again in 30 seconds.

The server is probably being hammered with every single query being redirected to it

Rich1691 · 31-01-2009 3:03pm

This could cost them, its an international thing, The same thing is happening with Google.fr

Jonathan · 31-01-2009 3:03pm

I was going mad thinking I had malware

fuzzsc00ta · 31-01-2009 3:05pm

This wtf is aprox 1 cuils

Supercell · 31-01-2009 3:08pm

Heh, its rather cool, thanks boards, i would have thought the intarweb had been infected by aliens or something if I hadn't read here

Geoffxx · 31-01-2009 3:09pm

this could indeed cost google billions of dollars, since changing to yahoo or another search engine is simple but will they go back.

I wouldn't like to be the employee that threw that switch :eek::eek::eek:

Cabaal · 31-01-2009 3:10pm

Currently every link you click on in google is returning this error, this is affecting google.com, google.ie, google.co.uk etc

and its not just Ireland either...somebody working for google is in alot of trouble for ****ing up!

ste88m · 31-01-2009 3:13pm

I'd say whoever managed this will find themselves jobless tomorrow..
Thought I had a virus for a minute!:pac:

r3nu4l · 31-01-2009 3:13pm

Same here when trying to surf from the UK.

Black_Knight · 31-01-2009 3:14pm

Terror alert must of gone up a level!

Quick everyone divert to yahoo search engine!

Supercell · 31-01-2009 3:14pm

Had to be done....

eVeNtInE · 31-01-2009 3:16pm

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Jonathan · 31-01-2009 3:17pm

Fixed again

Coyler · 31-01-2009 3:17pm

Could it be the ISP? I've ran into that issue before using VPNs. I've tried a few other services and RTE live stream won't work either. Just throwing it out there.

I'm on NTL/UPC by the by.

susanna · 31-01-2009 3:17pm

Yahoo was working for me, but I just tried to use its search engine a minute ago and I got a Google page saying

"Oops! This link appears broken.
Page not found - connection failure."

WTF?

Random · 31-01-2009 3:17pm

Supercell wrote: »

Had to be done....

The guy did that in the first post?

Quickly, sell your Google shares !

fuzzsc00ta · 31-01-2009 3:18pm

fixed

cherryghost · 31-01-2009 3:19pm

A Global epidemic ensues.

Supercell · 31-01-2009 3:20pm

Random wrote: »

The guy did that in the first post?

Quickly, sell your Google shares !

Doh!!, serves me right for jumping to the end!!

Random · 31-01-2009 3:20pm

Hi, my name is John. I'm a recovering Google user. This problem has been going on for almost twenty minutes now. My hands are starting to shake. My eyes are blurry. I've had to quit my job. Where are we get refuge? Who will take us in?

ste88m · 31-01-2009 3:21pm

Thank f##k. Back to normal!

Latchy · 31-01-2009 3:22pm

Never before in the histroy of man....eh ...Google have so many google related threads being made

cherryghost · 31-01-2009 3:25pm

argh its doing it again... what now!!?

yahoo?? pfffft as if!?

alta vista? ugh....

*breaks down and chucks cactus across the room*

HOW COULD YOU GOOGLE!!!?

Random · 31-01-2009 3:26pm

Is this a marketing ploy by Google? Those that use it will continue to use it because it gives them something to talk about. Those who've never heard of it will say "what's Google" and by the time they work out the URL Google is back up and working !

cherryghost · 31-01-2009 3:26pm

oh. its ok now.

*picks up smashed cactus*

spurious · 31-01-2009 3:28pm

Was it just happening with Mozilla?
When I tried it in IE it worked OK, but it may have coincided with the fixing of it. Any IE users (are there any still out there?) get this error?

Random · 31-01-2009 3:30pm

Random wrote: »

Hi, my name is John. I'm a recovering Google user. This problem has been going on for almost twenty minutes now. My hands are starting to shake. My eyes are blurry. I've had to quit my job. Where are we get refuge? Who will take us in?

Dear HR Manager,

You may recently have received a rather abrupt email from someone claiming to be me suggesting that you do something rather unsanitary with my job.

I would like to assure you that this was not in fact me and that I am fully aware that the world is not about to come to a premature end.

I look forward to seeing you in work on Monday morning.

Kind Regards
John Smith

Manager

minxie · 31-01-2009 3:31pm

works fine for me with mozilla
not with internet explorer tho.
whats going on??

Latchy · 31-01-2009 3:32pm

Because of google mishap I have reached my 200th thanks mark , thanks to cabaal and cheeryghost

random makes it 201

fuzzsc00ta · 31-01-2009 3:33pm

try clearing your cache

garimac · 31-01-2009 3:33pm

seems to be ok again

minxie · 31-01-2009 3:40pm

found this: http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=5779

Random · 31-01-2009 3:43pm

minxie1 wrote: »

found this: http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=5779

Google whitelisting lol

Techbot · 31-01-2009 3:46pm

I thought I was being paying the price for ignoring the warning the first time.

wheresmybeaver · 31-01-2009 4:31pm

This is what happens when you type google into google. You can break the internet.

pug_ · 31-01-2009 6:28pm

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-on.html

If you did a Google search between 6:30 a.m. PST and 7:25 a.m. PST this morning, you likely saw that the message "This site may harm your computer" accompanied each and every search result. This was clearly an error, and we are very sorry for the inconvenience caused to our users.

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.

Thanks to our team for their quick work in finding this. And again, our apologies to any of you who were inconvenienced this morning, and to site owners whose pages were incorrectly labelled. We will carefully investigate this incident and put more robust file checks in place to prevent it from happening again.

Thanks for your understanding.

Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP, Search Products & User Experience

mobby · 01-02-2009 2:54am

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7862840.stm

[Outage] Google is broken!

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