Jan 31, 2009

Google went berserk Saturday

A glitch at Google sent a message, “ message "This site may harm your computer” to anyone doing a Google search on Saturday morning.

Google said it routinely flags any search results with that message if the site is known to install malicious software in the background or otherwise surreptitiously, a practice aimed at protecting its users.

It gets its list of suspicious sites from StopBadware.org, a nonprofit project headed by legal scholars at Harvard and Oxford universities who research consumer complaints.

The Google error only lasted about one hour.

I wonder if this had anything to do with why the Google Adsense “gadgets” on my desktop stopped working.

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