Google broke this morning.

LooseCannon

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And how.  Someone at Google's anti-spyware division managed to list the website "/" as containing malware, which caused Google to block all websites containing "/".  As you no doubt know...that means every website was blocked.

I do tech support for a computer company.  The world was over. Thousands and thousands of people called in 40 minutes because of this issue.  Because they don't know how to use the internet.

"I can't get the internet."
"Okay, are you having trouble with the Google.com search engine?"
"No, I type in where I want to go and I can't get there!"
"Okay sir.  Where do you type it in!"
"Up at the top.  Where it says search with....oh."
"Yeah, Google's broke.  Use another engine, like Yahoo."
"How do I get there?  Normally I just type Yahoo into Google."
"Try www.yahoo.com.
"How do I do that?"

Please, Google...never break again.
 
I am amazed by that.  The worst part is that the end of the world came and went, and I missed it.  Damn.
 
Yeah, but it's pissing me off!!  I am 'googling' for spoilers for the remainder of Battlestar Galactica, and I can't find a damn thing.  The god google is spurning me.
 
It was Earth all along.

It's people.

The Cylons are actually a schizophrenic personality of the humans designed for the purposes of a fight club.

"Galactica" is his sled.
 
Ah, that clears everything up for me.  No reason to watch any longer!!

Wow, I can't believe you didn't spoiler tag that! :P
 
Wow, the (momentary) death of god really took something out of you!!!  Nothing like a crisis of faith to wear a guy out.
 
I call the people of this world Sheeple. Baaaah Baaaah.....they would all jump of a bridge if they saw the person in front of them do it. :blink:
 
LooseCannon said:
"I can't get the internet."
"Okay, are you having trouble with the Google.com search engine?"
"No, I type in where I want to go and I can't get there!"
"Okay sir.  Where do you type it in!"
"Up at the top.  Where it says search with....oh."
"Yeah, Google's broke.  Use another engine, like Yahoo."
"How do I get there?  Normally I just type Yahoo into Google."
"Try www.yahoo.com.
"How do I do that?"
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Technology is wasted on some folk, it really is. :D


I just so happened to do a Google search yesterday when it happened - so I can say that I was there when the End of the World came about.
 
If employees screw up, Google's going to break
If employees screw up, Google's going to break
When the Google breaks, you'll have no place to search

Some employee made every site unsafe
Yeah, some employee made every site unsafe
That's what it takes to make people call support
Oh well, oh well, oh well

Don't it make you feel bad
When you're trying to find a website
You don't know which way to go?
If you want to do a search
There's nothing you can do
If you don't know about Yahoo

Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good
If you call support they'll sigh and say use Yahoo
When the Google breaks, mama, you got to move

All last morning you tried to search but no...
All last morning you tried to search but no...
If there was a slash in the name it would not show

Going, going to Yahoo
Going to Yahoo
But I don't know how to do that
I'll call support, call support now
Call support, call support now...
 
This just shows that people should have to get a general "use of technology" license before being allowed near computers...

I didn't notice it myself, but my dad did, and I tried it.  It looked pretty funky.
 
Yup, happened to me too. Actually, i was searching for no-CD patch for NFS5 and it came to me that maybe google decided to blacklist all crack-releated sites. However, it was pretty weird that it blocked some NFS community site. No big hassle, i just copy-pasted the search result link into browser.
 
Shadow said:
If employees screw up, Google's going to break
If employees screw up, Google's going to break
When the Google breaks, you'll have no place to search

Some employee made every site unsafe
Yeah, some employee made every site unsafe
That's what it takes to make people call support
Oh well, oh well, oh well

Don't it make you feel bad
When you're trying to find a website
You don't know which way to go?
If you want to do a search
There's nothing you can do
If you don't know about Yahoo

Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good
If you call support they'll sigh and say use Yahoo
When the Google breaks, mama, you got to move

All last morning you tried to search but no...
All last morning you tried to search but no...
If there was a slash in the name it would not show

Going, going to Yahoo
Going to Yahoo
But I don't know how to do that
I'll call support, call support now
Call support, call support now...
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EPIC!
 
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