Google apparently moved quickly to fix a major bug that was affecting the entire internet this morning and had many webmasters writing about it.
This morning any website you visited in Google it showed a message "This Site May Harm Your Computer." It even shows this message with such authoritative news websites such as BBC and CNN. Right now it seems that those messages are gone and the search is OK now.
First, we would like to assure our readers that HULIQ has no known problems and is hosted with a secured server Rackspace.
However, Google shows the problem this morning with the entire internet, with all sites. In the beginning I thought the problem may be local, but then I saw other news services reporting the problem from around the world.
Here is what they say.
Google Blows Up, Suggests the Internet is Harmful writes Aaron Brazell from Technosailor. "It appears some sort of bug has snuck into the Google secret sauce. A feature that was intended to warn users of potential phishing sites has jumped the shark declaring the internet harmful. That’s right, every single result is deemed by Google to be harmful."
Google search currently broken, warnings on every query writes Neowin from Netherlands. Digital Lifestyle says "Google Breaks." Google has broken in a major way. If you search for anything on Google search, the warning message “This Site May Harm Your Computer” appears underneath each of the results."
The problem seems to be widespread accross the world. It is noticed by itWire from Australia, ThaIndian from Thailand and from UK. Thaindian reported the news at roughly 9:40 pm on 31st Jan 2008 (Thai time GMT +7).
At this time no word from Google that we know of. Hopefully the engineers are working to solve this issue ASAP. It affects not only the search engine but the credibility of the websites. Expect some webmasters receiving emails where the visitors may complain about the risks of the websites.
Apparently something bad was happening in the search engine this morning that effected all the webmasters. However, it's good that it seems to be fixed now. At least I don't see those messages from North Carolina at 10:30AM EST.
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