Google Problems?

[Lemur]

Hey gang, I was Googling this morning, and all of a sudden every page redirects to this (http://www.google.com/interstitial?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemur). What gives? Every search I'm running yields the same result:


https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/Malware.jpg

Is it possible Teh Google has been corrupted? Or is it far more likely that there's something wrong with my PC?

[KukriKhan]

I'm glad you pointed that out. I get the same here, just in the past hour, and chances of us both having identical PC trouble being slim, I think Google is getting a dDos attack.

[Lemur]

But ... but ... without Teh Google ... we're all doomed. DOOMED!

-edit-

Oh, wait, Gmail (http://mail.google.com) is still okay, so life may be able to continue in some stunted form ...

-edit of the edit-

Seems that people are noticing that Teh Internets Are Broken (http://digg.com/software/The_Internet_is_broken_7)!


The Google Anti-malware function is broken, and therefore reporting every single searched result as a dangerous site. Check it out!

[Ramses II CP]

Ugh, I've been using Yahoo all morning and it's annoying!

:egypt:

[tibilicus]

Getting the same here.

At least I know now it's not some malware in my PC getting up to no good.

[Lemur]

Slashdot (http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/31/1457221) is on the case. Of use: There's a plugin for Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/537) that lets you do an end-run around Google's malfunctioning malware alert.

Tested it and it works like a charm. Now I alone have the Internets for my personal use. Cower! Cower in fear!

[tibilicus]

Hmm everything seems to be working ok for me again now..

[Tellos Athenaios]

Just noticed the same. And some more: at times I got a "Forbidden" (403) error complaining about the Google interstitial pages. Ooh... is Google up to no good? Or is it just warning us that Wikipedia is not the source of knowledge & wisdom? :grin:

EDIT: It is 'fixed' now.

[KukriKhan]

From networkworld.com (http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/013109-human-error-caused-google-search.html), quoting google vp:


. "Unfortunately (and here's the human error), the URL of '/' was mistakenly checked as a value to the file and '/' expands to all URLs," she wrote. "Fortunately, our on-call site reliability team found the problem quickly and reverted the file."

So, a single typo error.

Wow. I thought those days were gone.