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rb2d2 · Sep 25, 2004

For 40 minutes this morning, the Internet was all spam

We’ve known for a while that there are a lot of bad websites out there that could damage your computer or wish to stealing your personal information. But this morning, it was revealed that 100 percent of all websites wished to do you harm — or at least, according to a little search site called Google that is.

Yes, between 6:30 AM PST and 7:35 AM PST, every single listing for every single search done through Google was flagged with the warning “This site may harm your computer,” Google’s vice president of search product and user experience, Marissa Mayer explained today on the Google Blog . While this was obviously an error — and a bad one — the blame game led to some further confusion.

I was wondering what the heck was going on!

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