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Google giving Malware Warning on all search results (now fixed)

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Re: Google giving Malware Warning on all search results (now fixed)

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post #9

First time I've ever used yahoo search.

I don't think we'd ever get to see the data, but this outage created a beautifully structured natural experiment. It's almost impossible for companies to learn how well they would do if a market leader disappeared, but 30 minutes without Google probably told Microsoft, Yahoo, and even a place like Cuil what their best-case future looks like.

Re: Google giving Malware Warning on all search results (now fixed)

#72
post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure whether to be impressed or terrified that Google can -- and, apparently, does -- roll out updates across their entire server farm in a matter of a minute or two.

"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." from http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-yo...

Okay, it sounds like it actually takes 13 to 15 minutes to roll out an update across the entire farm. That feels more like what I was expecting.

Re: Google giving Malware Warning on all search results (now fixed)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder how much it's costing me per second. I was right in the middle of some research! Now I'm going to spend a hour surfing HN looking for fresh new Google jokes! On the other hand, nothing brings people from around the world together like a bug in Google.

I wondering how much it's costing HN per second

17.3 cents

Re: Google giving Malware Warning on all search results (now fixed)

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post #70

Here is the official explanation from Google: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-yo...

" StopBadware.org to get our list of URLs " " 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. " Sounds like an opportunity to add a new acceptance test on items in that list :-)

Turns out they do not get a lits of URLs from there.

cf. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=460426

Re: Google giving Malware Warning on all search results (now fixed)

#78

I feel sorry for the poor sap who's going to get fired for this.

I'm not, if that person is the idiot that made a filter mandatory. But I fear the little technician, that reasoned against filtering in the first place, will get the boot.

Re: Google giving Malware Warning on all search results (now fixed)

#79
post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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." from http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-yo...

Okay, it sounds like it actually takes 13 to 15 minutes to roll out an update across the entire farm. That feels more like what I was expecting.

Compare: "How to 0wn the Internet in Your Spare Time" http://www.icir.org/vern/papers/cdc-usenix-sec02/cdc.pdf
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