Google Bug Proves Dependence Of All of Us
Earlier Saturday, Google suffered from a major bug: every website found by Internet users through Google had a warning that the site contained potentially harmful software. Many millions of users were unable to click on links found by Googleś search engine.
It is thought the site had erroneously identified all other websites – and some of its own pages – as containing malicious software or ‘malware’.
The glitch, which prevented internet users from directly clicking through to search results, was fixed within 30 minutes although users of Google’s email service Gmail have since reported finding genuine messages sent mistakenly to spam folders.
The errors prompted panic among web surfers who at first feared the popular search engine had suffered some kind of major failure that could have had serious implications for internet commerce.
The Google search page is by far the most popular on the internet, with the overall site receiving several hundred million queries each day. It is the most common homepage and accounts for almost four out of every five internet searches, making it a crucial part of the global economy.
Google fixed the glitch within 30 minutes. Gmail, however, continued to suffer from bugs a while longer.
Today’s prove more than anything else that we have all become highly dependent on Google. That is not necessarily a problem, but when Google stops functioning (well) it is. Allowing oneself to depend on one website is never wise; even if the website involved is considered highly reliable.
One usesr wrote on her Twitter that she was panicking until she remembered this other search engine, mentioned to her years ago: Yahoo! Yahoo may not be as good as Google but it certainly is a good number two. There are also other options out there; search engines are developed all the time.
None of them are as good as Google, but they function well – there’s no need to become too dependent on the world’s most popular search engine.
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It’s been a horrible internet day for Spain overall. Not only the google glitch, YouTube and other major sites have been timing out on Spanish users all day. Our dominant service provider must have messed something up and as a result its been a dismal internet day.