Jan31, 2009

Google May Harm Your Computer

I think Google is having a bit of a FAIL day. I just did a search for "prerogative" to ensure I was using the right spelling (that first 'r' occasionally catches me out) only to be told that Wikipedia may harm my computer:

wikipedia may harm your computer

I thought, eh.. never thought I'd see the day that wikipedia is caught out by spyware! However, I checked the source and there was no sign of any malicious code. So, on the off chance, I googled "cheese", and then "jemjabella". All links are showing "This site may harm your computer."

cheese may harm your computer

jemjabella may harm your computer

I wonder how long it's been like this for...

Update: it's been fixed.

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Jan19, 2009

Feedburner 'sploded?

What the bloody hell has gone wrong with Feedburner? I logged in yesterday to try and figure out why my feed subscriber count had dropped from 561 (highest it's ever been) to two hundred and something, to see a notice from Google about the whole shebang moving over to feedburner.google.com.

"Click here to move your account" etc... so I did. Only today, I'm down to 175 subscribers. Either Google have right royally screwed something up, or Feedburner have been staggeringly over-reporting subscribers for months. One things for sure, there's several sets of users missing from my subscriber info (e.g. there's zero Firefox Live Bookmarks readers, which I know is total tosh), and so something is definitely not right.

Have any of you guys had any problems getting to my feed? Any feedburner users experiencing similar problems?

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