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” This site is harmful to your computer” = Google madness

2 February, 2009 (07:58) | wedding

Did you get a warning recently when you visit my site ?

or any other site for that matter ?….well the puzzle has been due to some haywire by Google.com

So much so that even, Google.com itself is affected by this labelling.

See this story

“…………….Some of you may have noticed that Google went a little haywire yesterday, labeling every site under the sun, including google.com itself, as potentially harmful to your computer. (This label is usually reserved for sites reported to contain malicious code—think shady warez and porn sites laden with virus and trojan-laced pop-ups.) Drudge’s characterization—GOOGLE GONE MAD—may be overwrought (such is the Drudge style), but it illustrates a larger point: how smart is it to so heavily depend upon Google? How many of you rely on Gmail and Google News, to say nothing of plain ol’ search, every day? And to think, now Google wants us to store all of our data on its servers!…..”

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