Like normal days, I always using Google as my primary search engine. Suddenly, I got this message:
“This site may harm your computer”
What is wrong with Google search? So I try “google” as keyword :
I think Google is using StopBadware.org as their reference for unsecured website list. As currently StopBadware.org is down, it might caused the problem!
Hope it will be fixed soon!
Update: After about 45 minutes, the problem is fixed.
Update: Google has posted an update on their official blog explaining the problem details. Check here for more details.
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7 Comments Received
February 1st, 2009 @ 11:00 PM
I too experienced the same thing. The “news” site appeared to be working, but in searching blog posts to find out what was up with Google resulted in no results. I think they tried an update and it failed so they rolled back. Its interesting if they are going to use that as a ranking factor, as I don’t think that it is that reliable.
February 2nd, 2009 @ 8:15 PM
They say it was a human error.They have since apologized.
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February 4th, 2009 @ 9:20 PM
I’m glad it was an error. I got a bit nervous when I chescked my google position to find this message against my site! I thought all my hard work has gone. The thing is that I’ve never seen that message on any google results in the past. It does seem to come up in yahoo from time-to-time though.
February 11th, 2009 @ 5:06 AM
Even big company like google can make mistakes, because nobody is perfect!
February 13th, 2009 @ 4:24 PM
I think its really a big mistake because Google will go down if they do that again IMO.
February 14th, 2009 @ 11:41 PM
Google was crazy and made a big mistake. The mistake last 40 mins, I found the problem in 20 mins and posted it in my blog. http://www.bmd-china.com/wordpress/archives/googlecrazy.html
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February 18th, 2009 @ 2:15 PM
I also came through with same incidence. 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.
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