Over the weekend, between 2.30pm and 3.25pm on Saturday, Google managed to blacklist the entire internet. I know that it's a dangerous place, Goog, but that's ridiculous. Next to every single one of its search results appeared "This site may harm your computer", and users would have to go through a warning page.
Normally, Google only flags pages this way if the site is known to host malware. Google updates its list, though, and during the weekend's update, the website "/" was accidentally added to the list. Because that covers every website in the world, every website in the world was blocked. Nice work Google - I'm glad I'm not trusting you with pretty much all my important data. Oh... hang on a sec...
(via Official Google Blog)
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