Google broke the Internet: Malware detector went haywire
Sat, Jan 31st, 2009
Users of that search engine known as Google, gate-keeper of the Universe and master of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, experienced the inconvenience of Google's apparently fritzed Malware detector this morning. Around 9AM ET, it started labeling everything as malware, except YouTube videos which appears in search results. It didn't last long, however. By 9:16 the problem appeared to resolve itself.
Users who attempted to click through the sites shown in the search results were met with an error page that advised the following:
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