Google Search Flagging Everything As Potentially Harmful

dowlingw writes "It looks like for the moment at least, all Google results are failing the malware checks and being listed with a warning 'This site may harm your computer,' including all pages from Google themselves. Users trying to visit pages at search results will only be able to proceed via manual manipulation of the search result link to remove the Google click-through (which is also broken). Until Google fixes this bug, it looks Google web search is useless." Update: 01/31 at 15:16 GMT by SS: The problem now appears to be fixed.
Update: 01/31 at 22:01 GMT by KD : Google has now posted an explanation, apologizing and taking responsibility for the "human error" that led to the problem.

Comments

The precautionary principle

[cavehobbit]

...is a longstanding liberal tradition. Unless you know your action perfectly safe, you should be warned and even prevented from doing it. Why would anyone have a problem with this? What are you, some kind of expert?

I just tried to enter a word to find the definition and pronunciation, and saw that Wikipedia and wiki dictionary and all other sites are listed as potentially harmful.

So long as they fix it and leave places like the Discovery Institute and PETA with this warning, we should be OK.

Re:Not Useless

[A Big Gnu Thrush]

There are other search engines.

He'll have some 'splaining to do, for sure.

[Wee]

The guy in charge of the site reliability group is going to ream some SRE a new one. He HATES unscheduled restarts of the front ends, to the point of making people figure out what the actual dollar cost of the error is.

He won't lose his job, though.

-B