Watch Out, Google May Harm Your Computer
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Look out, Google may harm your computer.
If that heading didn’t grab your attention, I don’t know what will. When my mom decided to do a little Google searching this morning she was confronted with the warning message: “This site may harm your computer”, on EVERY SINGLE RESULT. Then, maybe I thought it was only because she was using Internet Explorer, so I tried on Chrome and Firefox, no dice. Still the warnings. Then, curious as I am, searched for Google. Even Google’s own sites have the warnings appended to them. Clicking the warning brought you to this Google help article. This is a very sad embarrassing day for Google. However, right at this second, I did another search, and the warnings were removed. How’s that for quick fixes?
If I could tell Google one thing, it would be to setup a test site, with a test search engine, and screw up on that site.
I don’t know how many people were blessed to see this hilarious screw up, but I’m just glad I shot a screenie of Google warning you that they might harm your computer.
Have a good day everyone.
One Comment
kat
January 31st, 2009
at 11:55pm
I was surfing the net via google this morning at work (for product information, of course) and thought that maybe my employer had put the warning on all of the search results to protect their precious WAN. Usually if you are someplace online they prefer you not to be, they simply forbid access.