google doesn't work?

elementrix · Jan 2009

somehow it appears that he filters every website as dangerous for my computer, anyone else has this problem?

t4paN · Jan 2009

Oh man, I was just about to make a thread like that! Google is borked!!

/edit wow this could signify the end of the world, it can't be good!

Talbot · Jan 2009

maybe try and turn off the "protected search" (or whatever it is called) under the preferences.

carlo_c · Jan 2009

Seems to be alright now, I just rebooted and it works now.

EDIT: seems to be if you search for more than one word you'll get that problem, I thought it was my pc hijacked at first lol

peppi · Jan 2009

Yup same here. The SafeSearch setting doesn't seem to make a difference.

elementrix · Jan 2009

works again

a few million people just missed their search haha:P

ElysiumGX · Jan 2009

Hehe. :poly142:

MoP · Jan 2009

Yeah, I got this too. I thought it was something i had done since i was searching for C++ help and thought Google was being over-protective about displaying code/scripts on linked pages.
Then I realised it was happening to everything! Seems fixed now though.

Weird thing was, when i was testing it during the breakage, searching "lol" returned normal results (no warnings) but searching "loll" listed every result as harmful. Same for "pie" and "pi" (pi was harmful, pie listed no warnings). No idea what must have broken for that to happen, but it sure was weird!

PolyHertz · Jan 2009

I thought I had a virus or something, had been running all sorts of scans on my system.

carlo_c · Jan 2009

I'd love to see google down for a day, just to see the internet reaction lol. I'd have to go back to alta vista to search!

Ghostscape · Jan 2009

carlo_c wrote: »

I'd love to see google down for a day, just to see the internet reaction lol. I'd have to go back to alta vista to search!

I had a browser hijack a while back that was hijacking google, yahoo, live, ask jeeves and a bunch of other search engines.

but alta vista was just fine

dejawolf · Jan 2009

had this problem too.

MoP · Jan 2009

40 minutes it was affected, apparently.

explanation of what happened:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-on.html

google doesn't work?

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