Google Error Sends Warning Worldwide

Google’s Internet search service malfunctioned for nearly 55 minutes Saturday morning, upending users around the world with search results that carried false safety warnings and Web links that did not work.The company acknowledged Saturday that all searches produced links with the same warning message: “This site may harm your computer.” Clicking on any of the links led to an error message stating that the desired site could not be reached.
http://nytimes.com/2009/02/01/technology/internet/01google.htmlGoogle blacklists entire internet
Google placed the internet on a blacklist today after a mistake caused every site in the search engine’s result pages to be marked as potentially harmful and dangerous.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/31/google-blacklist-internetGoogle: This Internet May Harm Your Computer
A glitch in a computer security program embedded deeply into Google’s search engine briefly prevented users of the popular search engine from visiting any Web sites turned up in search results this morning. Instead, Google users were redirected to page that warned: “This site may harm your computer.”Calls and e-mails sent to Google were not returned as of publication. I will update this blog if and when I hear back from them about the cause and length of this incident.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/01/google_this_internet_will_harm.htmlHuman error at Google sends the wrong message
Google said that for nearly an hour on Saturday, users got an erroneous message when they did searches on many sites, saying, “This site may harm your computer.”
http://in.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idINIndia-37767320090201
http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKTRE50U2KL20090131Google ‘error’ lists all websites as harmful [AFP]
The search engine Google sparked online confusion on Saturday when a glitch in its security program temporarily warned users that websites from all search results were potentially harmful.In the early hours of the morning between 1.30 and 2.35 am sites turned up in search results were marked as harmful and users received the message: “Warning! This site may harm your computer.””What happened? Very simply, human error,” Goggle vice president for search products and user experience Marissa Mayer said on the company’s official blog.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/02/01/1233423020423.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2009/02/01/1233423020423.html