For about 40 minutes, the Internet was no longer the place we know it as, but a jungle full of dangers. Due to a website indexing error, all the results returned by the search engine were classified as potentially dangerous for the computer.
On Saturday, January 31, shortly before four in the afternoon, Google became a danger to itself. The world's largest search engine crashed for half an hour: every click on a search result, regardless of bc data taiwan the keyword, received the same response: This site may harm your computer . The search engine warned of its own danger. Was it some kind of search engine strike?
In order to be able to browse for that half hour, you had to go to another search engine or enter the http address manually in the address field. But for many people, the absence of Google means the absence of the Internet. Apparently, the search engine has caused this problem all over the planet.
The cause of the problem is not entirely clear, but it appears to be a problem with the StopBadware public service, which alerts users of potentially dangerous websites that contain viruses or malware. StopBadware collects user complaints and compiles lists of websites considered dangerous, which it sends to Google. According to Google vice president Marissa Mayer, who posted this list on Saturday, all the URLs indexed by the search engine were mistakenly classified as dangerous when uploading this list. “What happened? Very simply, a human error,” says the vice president and head of search products and user experience.