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Google Traffic Takes Down Web Site

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the comparisons-inevitable dept.

bazonkers writes "Searchenginelowdown.com reports that it appears that the Google logo yesterday (honoring Gaston Julia) linked to the Google image search results for the words 'julia fractal'. The resulting traffic generated from clicking on that 'featured logo' incapacitated the servers of the top-listed images, hosted at an Australian university. This more than inconvenienced the owners of that site, who had to move pages and ended up displaying this page instead."

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  1. Re:Obligatory... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Just because someone is going to do it, doesn't justify you doing it.

  2. Re:Yeah by Bob+Uhl · · Score: -1, Troll

    And what's amazing is that it was a lie. The anti-tobacco forces deserve every single slashdotting they get. Filthy nanny-state bastards. There's a special circle of hell reserved for them.

  3. Re:I love it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    If google becomes the new standard for website destruction, what will slashdot do?

    Kill all the niggers, Mexicans, and Jews in the United States? Hey, you gotta start somewhere.

  4. Re:Insult to Injury by W32.Klez.A · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hi. You're a fucking faggot. Can you please suck my dick now? Thanks.