Yostivanich

Want to know what hap­pened on the inter­net today?

• Slash­dot | Google Search Flag­ging Every­thing As Poten­tially Harmful
• Google Flags Whole Inter­net As Malware
• Google Mis­tak­enly Labels The Inter­net as Malware
• Google Red-Faced…And Me, Too
• Updated — Google: Every site on the Web is harmful

Oh and that isn’t even half of the arti­cles that I know of pub­lished, I’ve seen a few of the actual news orginaz­tions one’s start com­ing across includ­ing WSJ and NYT.

This is ridicu­lous, sure Google is a big com­pany, that does a lot of searches espe­cially in the US (roughly 70% cur­rently). But seri­ously the entire inter­net and the peo­ple writ­ing on it seemed to have a freak out. Guess what Google makes mis­takes as does every other com­pany on the face of the earth, most espe­cially soft­ware com­pa­nies, think of Apple and the orig­i­nal MobileMe mess, or Microsoft and well Microsoft.

This occured for roughly an hour at most for any one cus­tomer and most likely less than 40 min­utes. It also occured early on a Sat­ur­day morn­ing, a time when I doubt the vast major­ity of the pub­lic is online. I wasn’t online and even if I was I doubt I would have even noticed. Sure I use Google a lot, I have in a typ­i­cal day roughly 30+ searches recorded by Google, today already Google shows that I’ve searched 40 dif­fer­ent times. But really is it worth it for the entire inter­net to freak out?