Google Explains the Site-Wide Mistake: “Human Error”

sooner this break of day , every single one of Google ’s lookup results come with a warning that the internet site “ may harm your data processor , ” admit their own holding like Gmail and Google Maps . They ’ve since explained what happened :

Google work with the non - profit StopBadware.org to create a list of potentially dangerous sites , which is updated periodically . One such update go on this aurora , but somebody typed in “ / ” by mistake . That simple key stroke expands to every single uniform resource locator , which is why Google was universally borked . Google engine driver bushel the problem in about half an hour , and it ’s back to normal now .

Please do n’t play with our head again , Google . We trust you . If you tell us the integral net might infect our computing equipment , we ’ll probably think you . [ Google ]

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