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Marissa Mayer / The Official Google Blog:
“This site may harm your computer” on every search result?!?! — If you did a Google search between 6:30 a.m. PST and 7:25 a.m. PST this morning, you likely saw that the message “This site may harm your computer” accompanied each and every search result. This was clearly an error …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Google Flags Whole Internet As Malware — We're not quite sure what's going on, but a couple of minutes ago any search result from Google is flagged as malware with a message saying “This site may harm your computer”. — Twitter is abuzz with people reporting the massive error, and it's clear that this is happening around the world.
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BBC:
‘Human error’ hits Google search — Google's search service has been hit by technical problems, with users unable to access search results. — For a period on Saturday, all search results were flagged as potentially harmful, with users warned that the site “may harm your computer”.
Maxim Weinstein / StopBadware Blog:
Google glitch causes confusion — This morning, an apparent glitch at Google caused nearly every [update 11:44 am] search listing to carry the “Warning! This site may harm your computer” message. Users who attempted to click through the results saw the “interstitial” …
Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:
Google flags entire Web as ‘malware’ — A major hiccup at Google this morning caused the entire Internet to be flagged as malware. — The problem appears to be centered around the Google Safe Browsing API — even that returned a “This site may harm your computer” warning (see screenshot below) …
Chris Anderson / Wall Street Journal:
The Economics of Giving It Away — In a battered economy, free goods and services online are more attractive than ever. So how can the suppliers make a business model out of nothing? — Over the past decade, we have built a country-sized economy online where the default price is zero — nothing, nada, zip.
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Source: Intel prepping for mass roll-out of Android netbooks — As netbook sales continue to pick up in a struggling world economy, Intel, which makes the Atom processor found in many of those netbooks, is looking towards the future of the market. Specifically, it's stepping up its efforts …
Elliot Spagat / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Justice Department hoaxes employees — SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Justice Department doesn't have to look far to find a scam that preys on people whose retirement plans have been crippled by the global financial meltdown. — It designed one of its own. And e-mailed it to agency employees.
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Printing The NYT Costs Twice As Much As Sending Every Subscriber A Free Kindle — Not that it's anything we think the New York Times Company should do, but we thought it was worth pointing out that it costs the Times about twice as much money to print and deliver the newspaper over a year …
Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!:
Find 'Em On Twitter: 15 Twitter Directories Compared — Searching for people or applications on Twitter? Good luck with that. Since Twitter offers little in the way of people search features (though they now have a suggestion tool), your search for interesting and dynamic people to follow …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Microhoo: What might have been — A year ago Sunday, on February 1, 2008, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told the world his company wanted to buy Yahoo. — Despite months of discussions, the deal never materialized, distressing many Yahoo shareholders and hastening Yahoo's replacement of CEO Jerry Yang with Carol Bartz.
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Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Microsoft's layoffs included the guy with the Blue Monster tattoo — Microsoft solutions adviser Dan Woodman achieved minor celebrity status for getting a tattoo of the company's unofficial “Blue Monster” mascot — a character created by Hugh MacLeod imploring employees to “change the world or go home.”
