Gmail Bug Sends Thousands of Emails To One Man

An anonymous reader writes "TechCrunch is reporting on an interesting Gmail bug. Apparently, if you run a Google search for Gmail while logged in and click one of the top (and correct) results, it brings up a Compose window with an email address already filled in: the Hotmail account of a Fresno, CA man. He says he's been receiving hundreds every hour, most of which are blank, since yesterday. The article says the bug is related to the Gmail outage from earlier this afternoon."

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How do you know you're having a shitty day?

[circletimessquare]

When you are being DDoSed by motherfucking Google .

Re:How do you know you're having a shitty day?

[circletimessquare]

I think Google should send someone over and do that for him.

As well as other general levels of groveling.

This guy has a real case against Google in the court of public opinion. He doesn't have to go legal. The simple PR value here is enough for Google to make a giant public act of contrition and gift the guy with something large, to make up for the troubles they caused him.

Hey... here's an idea: send over a high level Google engineer as this guy's personal lowly tech support guy for a month.

Heck, that sounds like it could be a sitcom, a Youtube web series.

Google: you can turn lemons into lemonade here, make it happen.

Re:Does he work as an analyst for the NSA?

[Anonymous Coward]

Nice try. His email address is noreply@gmail.com. What did he expect?

Grrr

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks Obama! :|

Google search for gmail

[FuzzNugget]

Yeah, I think we've located the source of the problem

Re:Bigness destroys companies

[ShaunC]

actually testing your junk before releasing updates

Everything Google puts out is "beta." Forever. They used to actually label it as such; this isn't the case anymore but I'm not sure that Google has ever released a product that they considered production-ready.