Something Wrong with teh Google?
Every search I do comes back with a “This site may harm your computer.”
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January 31, 2009 9:43 am
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58 Responses
Blue Neponset - January 31, 2009 | 9:45 am · Link
The Google knows your computer is weak and can be harmed easily. Just like your undead mage. (I kid)
Matt - January 31, 2009 | 9:45 am · Link
Same here. I think I’ve entered the Twilight Zone.
Mark-NC - January 31, 2009 | 9:45 am · Link
My old computer had a virus that I never got rid of. Did the same thing.
shera - January 31, 2009 | 9:46 am · Link
Thank goodness – I thought there was something specifically wrong with MY computer. Didn’t notice until about 10 minutes ago, though, so I don’t know if it’s a recent problem. I can navigate directly to sites in my Bookmarks without any warning, though.
Mark-NC - January 31, 2009 | 9:47 am · Link
Correction – my virus didn’t do THAT - that’s definitely Google!
Jim D. - January 31, 2009 | 9:48 am · Link
Yeah, same thing here – it’s the new Google Diagnostic service. Soon they’ll be offering a similar service but for human and animal health care – you’ll just have to put whatever body part needs to be scanned up to your monitor . . .
Dan Gicker - January 31, 2009 | 9:49 am · Link
I thought it was mine also. I cleared the cache but still got ‘this site may harm your computer.’
Svensker - January 31, 2009 | 9:49 am · Link
The Great Gazoogle done got hacked!
dr. bloor - January 31, 2009 | 9:50 am · Link
Same here. Hey—have you guys been surfing for dolphin-on-dwarf porn, too?
Tattoosydney - January 31, 2009 | 9:50 am · Link
Teh Google has been taken over by Republicans who have reprogrammed its search engine to think that every single page on the internets is written by black gay drug pusher pedophiles…
Krista - January 31, 2009 | 9:51 am · Link
Yeah. When you do a search on Google for "Google", and it comes back saying that Google itself may harm your computer, there’s something squirrelly going on there.
Laura W - January 31, 2009 | 9:53 am · Link
@Tattoosydney: Speaking of drugs, I lust for your lime infused vodka. Pleeze ship soon, kay thx.
No google trouble here.
KDP - January 31, 2009 | 9:54 am · Link
Yup, teh google Web searches return the ‘the site may be harm your computer.’ In addition, the last two times I tried to click through to the diagnostic pages, Google returned a server error. The Google Webmaster Blog spot also returns a 502 error.
The warning does not seem to appear on News, Images, Shopping, or other search channels.
Remember though: "All your base are belong to us."
Comrade Jake - January 31, 2009 | 9:55 am · Link
This sort of thing definitely does not inspire confidence. Yikes.
Liz Williams - January 31, 2009 | 9:59 am · Link
Yes, I just got the same thing. Thought it was me! It was fine this morning….
Mike P - January 31, 2009 | 10:01 am · Link
Just got that message too.
Tattoosydney - January 31, 2009 | 10:02 am · Link
@Laura W:
I’d be delighted to.
Walker - January 31, 2009 | 10:02 am · Link
Sounds like a failed roll-out to me.
Someone’s job security at Google just got a bit more tenuous.
Ryan Hanks - January 31, 2009 | 10:06 am · Link
I think google got hacked. I logged into my gmail and all my emails were gone. EVERY SINGLE ONE
Ryan Hanks - January 31, 2009 | 10:06 am · Link
I think google got hacked. I logged into my gmail and all my emails were gone. EVERY SINGLE ONE
R-Jud - January 31, 2009 | 10:06 am · Link
Same message here in limeyland. Maybe the person responsible was also driving the Google Street View car in New York, and is still upset by this?
Amy - January 31, 2009 | 10:08 am · Link
Me, too. Weird.
KDP - January 31, 2009 | 10:10 am · Link
Google Webmaster Forums have these posts up on this topic this morning.
List of posts growing as posters don’t bother to look for a post on the particular topic, but just add another thread saying every search returns a warning. Feh!
Amused by one of the more recent posts titled "No more threads about Malware and Google with content:
Didn’t work though, poster got on snippy response that if Google fixed the problem, the posts wouldn’t be there. So there!
I’ll be interested to read Google’s explanation of the issue.
Pighunter - January 31, 2009 | 10:10 am · Link
Hah!! its not only me then! phewww… and i thought i gotta spend the night fixing my friend’s pc.. what a relief.. dumb ass google..
Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse - January 31, 2009 | 10:10 am · Link
EVERYTHING seems to be marked "This site may harm your computer". Including Balloon Juice.
Yeah, some peon is losing a finger today.
Tim F. - January 31, 2009 | 10:10 am · Link
I thought you must be some kind of deranged perv who only looks asian+teen+tentacle and such rot, so I tried searching for skull+fuck+kittens.
Sure enough BJ is still hits one through three, but Google won’t let me navigate here. Until Google finds the hamster in their server farm I suggest the competition.
South of I-10 - January 31, 2009 | 10:11 am · Link
Had to try it, I am getting the same message. I wonder what is up?
The Silent Fiddle of Nero - January 31, 2009 | 10:11 am · Link
Funny, I just did a search and ended up with a link to the State Department and it said "this site may harm your computer". Hmmmm.
Ted - January 31, 2009 | 10:11 am · Link
Same here. Perhaps the net has achieved self-consciousness.
Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse - January 31, 2009 | 10:13 am · Link
And people are already Twittering about it.
The Silent Fiddle of Nero - January 31, 2009 | 10:13 am · Link
Well, so long as it’s not his job… unless he can’t type with nine fingers, I mean.
daveX99 - January 31, 2009 | 10:18 am · Link
Looks like the Googles have returned, but will they last?
-d.
Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse - January 31, 2009 | 10:22 am · Link
Looks like it’s properly filtering, not just turned off. If you refresh your search results for any innocuous site, there’s no alert, but a site that was infested last week and is still being cleaned up does show the alert. Nice job, Google.
woody - January 31, 2009 | 10:23 am · Link
The Google is indeed afflicted with the squirrellies today, here in my corner of the woods, anyway…
Ed Marshall - January 31, 2009 | 10:25 am · Link
I got nothing. It’s fixed now?
woody - January 31, 2009 | 10:27 am · Link
Until Google finds the hamster in their server farm I suggest the competition.
I like "dogpile."
Ben - January 31, 2009 | 10:30 am · Link
It seems to be coming and going. Obviously someone is on the problem, but it’s definitely not fixed yet.
dan robinson - January 31, 2009 | 10:31 am · Link
Is it Google Gears?
I turned that on for one computer and I get that message on that computer. I’m using a different computer right now and I don’t get that message.
The Silent Fiddle of Nero - January 31, 2009 | 10:31 am · Link
It seems to be fixed now.
burnspbesq - January 31, 2009 | 10:32 am · Link
No issues here. Searched on "Compass Records," "al jazeera," and "FA Cup", got the list of links I expected, and was able to click through.
Maybe this thing, whatever it is, is platform- or browser-specific. I am on a MacBook Pro running OSX 10.5 and using the current version of Firefox.
The Other Steve - January 31, 2009 | 10:35 am · Link
I broke the google.
I was up until 3am last night. Moved two of my domains to google apps hosting for email and small website.
Ed Marshall - January 31, 2009 | 10:38 am · Link
You got an escape plan for when Pajamas Media folds up, John?
lojasmo - January 31, 2009 | 10:48 am · Link
Word has it (someone in the know) that "somebody did a typo"
:D
John Cole - January 31, 2009 | 10:48 am · Link
@Ed Marshall: Shrug. I will just throw other ads up.
Not sure what all the fuss is about. For me, it was always just an ad portal. When it started, I thought they would do some original reporting, but other than some columns every day, that never materialized.
For my part, all it has ever been was an advertising portal, so I will just move on to another way to advertise. And if no one wants to advertise, I guess I can use the side columns to post pet pics.
I see some people flaming Roger Simon, but I don’t understand that at all. The folks at PJ Media always kept their word to me. I signed a contract through the end of march, and when it is up, they are opting to not renew my contract. That sort of thing happens thousands of time every single day all over the country. Not sure why to some it is such a big deal.
I suppose I will write a post about it at some point, but why bother- “HEY FOLKS, ADS WILL BE CHANGING IN APRIL.” That is about the sum of it.
Marshall - January 31, 2009 | 10:49 am · Link
Yes, there was something wrong from about 09:50 to 10:15 AM EST.
This even made slasdot
http://tech.slashdot.org/artic.....31/1457221
Google flagged every search result as dangerous, all over the planet.
Laura W - January 31, 2009 | 10:49 am · Link
@burnspbesq: Hey…I listened to Moss for the first time yesterday driving in the beautiful mountains. Only got to the 6th track, will finish today as I have more driving to do.
So far my very fave song has been #4, There Alone Go I.
It’s very reminiscent of Manhattan Transfer, which I lurf.
Thanks for the tip.
Edit: "I am on a MacBook Pro running OSX 10.5 and using the current version of Firefox."
Same but OSX 10.4.11
No issues all morning.
Adrienne - January 31, 2009 | 10:52 am · Link
I haven’t had any trouble with teh Google today.
RoonieRoo - January 31, 2009 | 11:07 am · Link
Thank goodness I came to Balloon-Juice! I’m starting to use my brand new laptop and freaked for a second when I saw that on a Google Search. So, I refreshed a couple of times and it went away. I’m so glad to find out it wasn’t me or my spankin’ brand new laptop. Whew.
gex - January 31, 2009 | 12:27 pm · Link
This is one of the things that really worries me about Google. The scope of their reach on the Internet means that when they have a problem, the whole net has a problem. When Google analytics is on the fritz, it basically horks up the entire net. No matter what page you try to pull up, it takes forever trying to contact google analytics.
ThinkingMeat · ZOMG!!! ZOMG!!! ZOMG!!! Cao is trying to infect your machine!!! EVERYBODY PANIC!!! - January 31, 2009 | 12:57 pm · Link
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Just Some Fuckhead - January 31, 2009 | 12:58 pm · Link
That google street view shit gives me the willies. I don’t like people being able to google my address and then look at my house, as I google other people’s addresses and look at their houses.
At least they got a good pic in the summer with the hosta in full bloom and the maple trees with full canopies.
Laura W - January 31, 2009 | 1:03 pm · Link
@Just Some Fuckhead: I know how many dead bunnies you have in your back yard, you know.
Just Some Fuckhead - January 31, 2009 | 1:05 pm · Link
@Laura W: Only if yer the one killing ‘em. :)
Oh dear.
Notorious P.A.T. - January 31, 2009 | 2:27 pm · Link
Intentional misspelling of words for no particular reason may harm my brain.
burnspbesq - January 31, 2009 | 2:36 pm · Link
@Laura W:
Glad you’re enjoying it. My 15-year-old kid usually projectile-vomits when he has to listen to my music in the car (I admit it – I have been known to employ the Opera Torture), but even he likes Moss.
Marshall - January 31, 2009 | 3:46 pm · Link
Google’s explanation of what went wrong :
http://googleblog.blogspot.com.....er-on.html
Just Some Fuckhead - January 31, 2009 | 4:51 pm · Link
@Marshall: Too late for me. I want my money back and/or a generous allotment of free google searches.
boggled - July 28, 2009 | 8:20 am · Link
Apparently, I have to post a comment for the website to render correctly on my computer. Since I’m a lurker, I thought I’d do it on an old, dead thread.
edited to add: or maybe not; it worked on my home computer.