Google ‘error’ed with ‘/’
Google, between 1430 and 1525 GMT, sites turned up in search results were marked as harmful and users received the message: “Warning! This site may harm your computer.”
Why? Here is the answer
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“What happened? Very simply, human error,” Goggle vice president for search products and user experience Marissa Mayer said on the company’s official blog.
Google receives regular updates to a list of malicious websites from StopBadware.org, which investigates consumer complaints.
“We periodically receive updates to that list and received one such update to release on the site this morning,” Mayer explained.
“Unfortunately (and here’s the human error), the URL of ‘/’ was mistakenly checked in as a value to the file and ‘/’ expands to all URLs.”
Users who tried to access the site were blocked by Google, which directed them to StopBadware.org. The firm works with Google to determine which sites are dangerous.
“This led to a denial of service of our website as millions of Google users attempted to visit our site for more information,” StopBadware.org said in a statement.
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A simply mistake but cause outage of internet, because google controls 70% of internet search market. Big news, happy news for Baidu ( which take 70% of chinese internet search market ) .
Okay, that’s a small mistake, but so many people found it.