I don't understand how they can block a site this big and this heavily trafficked without even making an attempt to contact anyone.
Dropbox.com blocked by Google?
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Re: Dropbox.com blocked by Google?
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Sites are automatically flagged when malware is detected. Dropbox may be serving malware without knowing it. This page has instructions about how to request a malware review: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answe...
Google is well-aware that doing business on an Internet scale means you start clocking measurable economic losses immediately when the site goes down, and for all intents and purposes Google has just handed Dropbox a service interruption because Google far and away the most powerful entity on the Internet. I can't even bring Dropbox up in my browser by typing in their domain name , to say nothing of the majority of I…
Google sucks at putting a human in the loop. They hate it. It costs money and doesn't scale to the entire Internet.
Dammit all that free at point of use stuff Google keeps giving us, I want them to have a guy retyping all my emails into Gmail to make it so prohibitively expensive that they have to close all their services?? That'll show 'em.
Re: Dropbox.com blocked by Google?
#23its fake..
Check this out http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnost...
Re: Dropbox.com blocked by Google?
#24They've only blocked the secure site for that domain name. Might be because the SSL certificate is still for www.getdropbox.com
Re: Dropbox.com blocked by Google?
#25I don't understand how they can block a site this big and this heavily trafficked without even making an attempt to contact anyone.
Automation. They accidentally flagged the entire internet a while ago.
Re: Dropbox.com blocked by Google?
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Google is well-aware that doing business on an Internet scale means you start clocking measurable economic losses immediately when the site goes down, and for all intents and purposes Google has just handed Dropbox a service interruption because Google far and away the most powerful entity on the Internet. I can't even bring Dropbox up in my browser by typing in their domain name , to say nothing of the majority of I…
You are reading too much in to it.
I don't think Patrick read into anything there. He does not imply that Google did this intentionally at all.
His point holds water for me, getting blocked by Google is a huge problem for any business, and its impossible to get in touch with Google short of making a fuss.
Consider this tweet from Dropbox:
"Having trouble reaching the right folks @ Google re: browser warnings; email abuse@dropbox.com to help, thanks"
http://twitter.com/Dropbox/status/5612052146
Not to mention, the timing sucks: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=935009 (Google announces today they've increased their storage quota to 20GB/$5, which happens to be very competitive with Dropbox).
Not getting out the tinfoil hat, but this isn't right.
Re: Dropbox.com blocked by Google?
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Google is well-aware that doing business on an Internet scale means you start clocking measurable economic losses immediately when the site goes down, and for all intents and purposes Google has just handed Dropbox a service interruption because Google far and away the most powerful entity on the Internet. I can't even bring Dropbox up in my browser by typing in their domain name , to say nothing of the majority of I…
You are reading too much in to it.
Not really, his point is valid. They wield a terrifying amount of power over most web-based businesses, and they're not very careful with it as they're not beholden to any site. If you get bumped from their index, you can immediately lose a very large percentage of your traffic and have very little hope of regaining it on the MONTHS timeframe. For a startup, that could mean game over.