{"id":319,"date":"2009-01-31T09:15:12","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T16:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/?p=319"},"modified":"2009-01-31T09:25:31","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T16:25:31","slug":"twitter-breaks-google-epic-fail-story-in-realtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"

Twitter Breaks Google-Epic-Fail Story In Realtime"},"content":{"rendered":"

So this morning I didn’t even try to “Google” anything yet. I checked my Twitter as part of my new daily routine, right?<\/p>\n

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Everyone’s complaining that everything they’re searching for is being labelled as “harmful” to their computer. Google seems to have torqued up their malware thingamabob to the highest setting and all their searches are showing every single hit as malware.<\/p>\n

Now I know the zine I’ve been publishing since 1988 (ati, activist times, international) is harmful to your mind, but to your computer???<\/p>\n

I think not.<\/p>\n

So it lasted less than an hour.<\/p>\n

Here’s some of the twitter chatter I saw in realtime while this story was breaking:<\/p>\n

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OK true. Twitter broke the Google story first – as with pretty everything. Twitter is the new place to go when you need to know.<\/span> half a minute ago<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> from twhirl<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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TechCrunch broke the Google story first: http:\/\/bit.ly\/igUF<\/a> Note to self: This is why it pays to have a Belgium bureau.<\/span> 24 minutes ago<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> from twhirl<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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ok, google is busted. somebody google the address for altavista.<\/span> 27 minutes ago<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> from web<\/span><\/p>\n

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FLASH: Google is no longer harmful. Play on.<\/span> less than 5 seconds ago<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> from web<\/span><\/p>\n

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HAHA: @joeshaw<\/a> woo fixed. those 20 minutes without google were the darkest of my life.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Great to know that Google Search has been fixed!<\/span> 3 minutes ago<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> from web<\/span><\/p>\n

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Why is google showing all of my naked facebook pictures???<\/span> 4 minutes ago<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> from web<\/span><\/p>\n

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hahaha @leolaporte<\/a> is calling it an internet blackout. It’s funny watching people try and grasp this in realtime.<\/span> 4 minutes ago<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> from web<\/span><\/p>\n

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ahhh looks like Google search is not harmful anymore<\/span> 6 minutes ago<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> from Power Twitter<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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@grader<\/a> WARNING! \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Google May Harm Your Computer (#GOOGMAYHARM)\u00e2\u20ac\u009d http:\/\/bit.ly\/GKvA<\/a> — Please RT and help spread the word.<\/span> 7 minutes ago<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> from web<\/span><\/p>\n

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@rabble<\/a> @kellan<\/a> jeez now Google’s image search quality is worse that Cuil’s first offering. <\/span>23 minutes ago<\/span><\/span><\/a> from web<\/span><\/p>\n

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HAHA: @natfriedman<\/a>:I was thinking about switching to Yahoo!search,but Google just warned me it’s not safe. Better steer clear!<\/span> 32 minutes ago<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> from web<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is the equivalent of an Internet blackout. I never asked Google to “protect me.” I bet Carol Bartz did this.<\/span> 35 minutes ago<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> from twhirl<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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I guess I know what the number one topic will be on the radio show today.<\/span> 41 minutes ago<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> from twhirl<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Something is seriously wrong with Google.<\/span> 42 minutes ago<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> from twhirl<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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@grader<\/a> Searches for ‘google’ gives a full page of “this site might harm your computer” errors – something tells me they’ll fix this quickly<\/span> about 1 hour ago<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> from web<\/span><\/p>\n

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Their page that explains is a server error page. http:\/\/bit.ly\/1wJ05K<\/a><\/span> about 1 hour ago<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> from web<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ridiculous. Google says scripting.com has malware. http:\/\/bit.ly\/QMPn<\/a><\/span> about 1 hour ago<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> from web<\/span><\/p>\n

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@atizine<\/a> @rabble<\/a> @grader<\/a> google seem to be afraid of the entire web this morning. even google.com is coming up as bad. (which today it is)<\/span> about 1 hour ago<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> from web<\/span><\/p>\n

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Google\/Firefox is throwing up Malware warnings when I attempt to visit answers.yahoo.com. I know the answers are bad, but malware, really?<\/span> about 1 hour ago<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> from web<\/span><\/p>\n

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@godfoca<\/a> Google thinks ruby blogs \/ sites are malware? it’s a conspiracy by the pythonistas at google me thinks!<\/span> about 1 hour ago<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> from NatsuLion<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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So this morning I didn’t even try to “Google” anything yet. I checked my Twitter as part of my new daily routine, right? Everyone’s complaining that everything they’re searching for is being labelled as “harmful” to their computer. Google seems to have torqued up their malware thingamabob to the highest setting and all their searches […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-humor","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}