Somebody at Google did not have a very nice day today, and it’ll probably be less nice for the person who caused the problem. It lasted only about 20 minutes, but (apparently) affected every country in the world, and was on Techcrunch and the front page of Reddit by the time I’d noticed it (and I was googling anyway, so I noticed right away). I had time to do a couple of test searches myself, check P.’s computer to see whether it was just mine (it wasn’t), and type a message to L. to see whether it was just Google in the US (it wasn’t) before it was on the FP of Reddit three times; one of them the top story. There were so many people clicking the links to see what was going on that they took down the entire site of Stopbadware.org (incidentally…stupid name–it’s “malware” and even the dumbest computer illiterate can learn a word). It was interesting, though, because in order to finish what I’d been doing, I had to go to Google, get the warning and copy the URL for Yahoo! Search in order to find it. I guess that means to me, teh Google is teh intarwebs! 🙂

Searching “test search”.

Search for “google” on Google.com

Search for “google” on Google.fr

Search for “google” on Google.se

Now…back to what I was doing before somebody broked teh google! 🙂