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Miamacs - 3:30 pm on Jan 31, 2009 (gmt 0)



System: The following message was spliced on to this thread from: http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3839069.htm [webmasterworld.com] by brett_tabke - 11:15 am on Jan. 31, 2009 (cst -6)


Guess many people are typing the question at the time I am but...

Google displaying
"This site may harm your computer"
for all sites and any search made me crack up.

Happened for... probably a few hours or so?

Some people said Google could have been hacked.
I thought... "test gone wrong".
But then again some sites including WebmasterWorld becoming unavailable at the very same time can not be a coincidence.

I don't know how much Google relies on real-time checking of 3rd party malware databases but if so, could it be that these going offline resulted in the phenomenon?

...

Anyways, will be interesting to see Google traffic drop in the stats for these few hours.


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