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:
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.”
I wonder how long it’s been like this for…
Update: it’s been fixed.
31 Jan at 2:57 pm
Hahaha that’s so funny!!!
31 Jan at 3:00 pm
A couple of minutes I think. Threads started popping up on forums about 5 minutes ago.
Even Google’s own pages/sites come up with it. Gah. :(
The world is ending.
31 Jan at 3:03 pm
Yeah, I seemed to be clicking links fine. Then after eating pizza I discover that almost ever search output comes up with "this site may harm your computer". It’s fine when your type the URL in the address bar though. Hmm…
31 Jan at 3:05 pm
I was doing a search from something and got this earlier today. The site didn’t seem like it would have spyware, but you never know…
31 Jan at 3:06 pm
The same thing happened to me. I was too scared to click on them in case I got attacked by viruses. When I searched my site though, nothing like that came up :S
31 Jan at 3:15 pm
It wasn’t me! I did not break google! :)
31 Jan at 3:15 pm
Did they fix it yet? Because I’m searching google for random things right now and the "may harm your computer" message isn’t showing on anything.
31 Jan at 3:16 pm
Fixed :)
31 Jan at 3:16 pm
By the way, my first thought after I started reading this was "lol. A prerogative may harm your computer!"
31 Jan at 3:16 pm
This isn’t affecting everyone. My friends Karly and Nicole are having no problems, which makes me mad. Why do I have to be the one who can’t Google anything? :P
31 Jan at 3:17 pm
Nice to see you are on the ball, Jem *hugs*
31 Jan at 3:21 pm
Fail. Need I say more?
31 Jan at 3:34 pm
@Clem: it was affecting everyone that was using the UK version, but it was fixed… if you’re searching for the same stuff as before (when it was "broken") you’ll need to do a forced refresh (control + F5) on the results page.
31 Jan at 3:38 pm
It was affecting every Google, not just the UK.
31 Jan at 3:45 pm
Unfortunately I was unable to check as I automagically get redirected to the UK version…!
31 Jan at 3:57 pm
lol this morning my Dad was like, "Ahhh, this site will NOT harm the computer!!!"
31 Jan at 3:58 pm
Exact same thing happened to me.
Every site i went on, from google said it would harm my computer.
It wouldnt even let me view the site!
Th thaught it was my computer… But obviously not! :) Feww!!
31 Jan at 4:17 pm
Someone obviously typed google into Google. DON’T YOU KNOW THAT BREAKS THE INTENETS??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?/1?1/1/1/
31 Jan at 4:42 pm
Are you going to submit this to the FAILblog?
31 Jan at 5:25 pm
Like I posted on Ben’s blog, I feel gypped for having missed that. :(
31 Jan at 7:05 pm
Creepy, I hope you didn’t lose (many) visitors for this :o
31 Jan at 8:11 pm
aww, even google has to break down every once in a while!
31 Jan at 9:29 pm
Waah, I missed it. :(
31 Jan at 10:21 pm
I can’t believe I missed it. Apparently it was caused by a misplaced backslash :O
Lol @ Amelie’s comment!
31 Jan at 11:58 pm
Ohoh, I agree with Cristina! Fail blog needs this! LOL
01 Feb at 12:04 am
My mom was Googling stuff this morning and was all like "THIS SITE MAY HARM MY COMPUTER!!!!11!!1" And asked me to fix it. I said "Um. I doubt EVERY site will harm your computer." But she didn’t believe me.
… She believes *you* though. :P
01 Feb at 2:59 am
I noticed that yesterday. Nice one, Google :P
01 Feb at 9:58 am
Great work google. I found out about it today, reading this article.
01 Feb at 12:00 pm
I noticed it too, glad it’s fixed though, I couldn’t go anywhere but to that ugly ‘this site may harm your computer’ page without having to type the (sometimes long) URL into the address bar…
01 Feb at 5:43 pm
You gotta love Google!
01 Feb at 5:51 pm
I was freaking out when this happened. I had to use Yahoo for about an hour.