January 1st 2009 - Google PageRank updated

January 31st 2009, 9:35am EST - Every Google search produces "This site may harm your computer.", even for Google itself. As seen on Google search: This site may harm your computer. Google paid ads (Google Adwords) are only the ones that are not flagged with "This site may harm your computer".
Many blogs reflected to this event immediately: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000859.html

January 31st 2009, 10:15am EST - Every Google search produces "This site may harm your computer." - the problem fixed.

From Google's official blog:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-on.html
1/31/2009 09:02:00 AM

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, and we are very sorry for the inconvenience caused to our users.

What happened? Very simply, human error. Google flags search results with the message "This site may harm your computer" if the site is known to install malicious software in the background or otherwise surreptitiously. We do this to protect our users against visiting sites that could harm their computers. We maintain a list of such sites through both manual and automated methods. We work with a non-profit called StopBadware.org to come up with criteria for maintaining this list, and to provide simple processes for webmasters to remove their site from the list.

We periodically update that list and released one such update to the site this morning. Unfortunately (and here's the human error), the URL of '/' was mistakenly checked in as a value to the file and '/' expands to all URLs. Fortunately, our on-call site reliability team found the problem quickly and reverted the file. Since we push these updates in a staggered and rolling fashion, the errors began appearing between 6:27 a.m. and 6:40 a.m. and began disappearing between 7:10 and 7:25 a.m., so the duration of the problem for any particular user was approximately 40 minutes.

Thanks to our team for their quick work in finding this. And again, our apologies to any of you who were inconvenienced this morning, and to site owners whose pages were incorrectly labelled. We will carefully investigate this incident and put more robust file checks in place to prevent it from happening again.

Thanks for your understanding.

April 4th 2009 - Google PageRank updated

May 27th 2009 - Google PageRank updated

October 30th 2009 - Google PageRank updated

December 31st 2009 - Google PageRank updated

April 4th 2010 - Google PageRank updated

April 27th 2010 - Many website owners reported decrease in traffic comming from Google

May 5th 2010 - Google Caffeine rolled out completely.     Google Caffeine now live

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August 24th 2010 - Phone calls directly from Gmail. Calls to the U.S. and Canada will be free for at least the rest of the year and calls to other countries will be billed at our very low rates.

September 8th 2010 - Google results are now instant! Google Instant is a new search enhancement that shows results as you type.

September 30th 2010 - Google's own URL shortening service goo.gl is now available thru a dedicated website. Google URL shortener offers QR code generator as bonus:

November 7th 2011 - Google toolbar PageRank update. The actual PageRank update occur several months ago.

January 1st 2009 - Google PageRank updated

January 31st 2009, 9:35am EST - Every Google search produces "This site may harm your computer.", even for Google itself. As seen on Google search: This site may harm your computer. Google paid ads (Google Adwords) are only the ones that are not flagged with "This site may harm your computer".
Many blogs reflected to this event immediately: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000859.html

January 31st 2009, 10:15am EST - Every Google search produces "This site may harm your computer." - the problem fixed.

From Google's official blog:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-on.html
1/31/2009 09:02:00 AM

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, and we are very sorry for the inconvenience caused to our users.

What happened? Very simply, human error. Google flags search results with the message "This site may harm your computer" if the site is known to install malicious software in the background or otherwise surreptitiously. We do this to protect our users against visiting sites that could harm their computers. We maintain a list of such sites through both manual and automated methods. We work with a non-profit called StopBadware.org to come up with criteria for maintaining this list, and to provide simple processes for webmasters to remove their site from the list.

We periodically update that list and released one such update to the site this morning. Unfortunately (and here's the human error), the URL of '/' was mistakenly checked in as a value to the file and '/' expands to all URLs. Fortunately, our on-call site reliability team found the problem quickly and reverted the file. Since we push these updates in a staggered and rolling fashion, the errors began appearing between 6:27 a.m. and 6:40 a.m. and began disappearing between 7:10 and 7:25 a.m., so the duration of the problem for any particular user was approximately 40 minutes.

Thanks to our team for their quick work in finding this. And again, our apologies to any of you who were inconvenienced this morning, and to site owners whose pages were incorrectly labelled. We will carefully investigate this incident and put more robust file checks in place to prevent it from happening again.

Thanks for your understanding.

April 4th 2009 - Google PageRank updated

May 27th 2009 - Google PageRank updated

October 30th 2009 - Google PageRank updated

December 31st 2009 - Google PageRank updated

April 4th 2010 - Google PageRank updated

April 27th 2010 - Many website owners reported decrease in traffic comming from Google

May 5th 2010 - Google Caffeine rolled out completely.     Google Caffeine now live

More options to search with:



Search by location:


Social search:

August 24th 2010 - Phone calls directly from Gmail. Calls to the U.S. and Canada will be free for at least the rest of the year and calls to other countries will be billed at our very low rates.

September 8th 2010 - Google results are now instant! Google Instant is a new search enhancement that shows results as you type.

September 30th 2010 - Google's own URL shortening service goo.gl is now available thru a dedicated website. Google URL shortener offers QR code generator as bonus:

November 7th 2011 - Google toolbar PageRank update. The actual PageRank update occur several months ago.

March 17th 2012 - Google security certificate error
The server's security certificate is not yet valid! You attempted to reach www.google.ca, but the server presented a certificate that is not yet valid. No information is available to indicate whether that certificate can be trusted. Google Chrome cannot reliably guarantee that you are communicating with www.google.ca and not an attacker. You should ensure that your clock and time zone are set correctly on your computer. If they are not, you should correct any issues and refresh this page. If they are correct, you should not proceed.
Google security certificate expired on St. Patrick
It was resolved by 11:00am EST. Happy St. Patrick's Day

March 17th 2012 - Google security certificate error
The server's security certificate is not yet valid! You attempted to reach www.google.ca, but the server presented a certificate that is not yet valid. No information is available to indicate whether that certificate can be trusted. Google Chrome cannot reliably guarantee that you are communicating with www.google.ca and not an attacker. You should ensure that your clock and time zone are set correctly on your computer. If they are not, you should correct any issues and refresh this page. If they are correct, you should not proceed.
Google security certificate expired on St. Patrick
It was resolved by 11:00am EST. Happy St. Patrick's Day

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