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A Google programmer accidentally blocked off every website in the Google index for an hour!

A Google programmer accidentally blocked off every website in the Google index for an hour! Google has programmers whose job is to block websites with malware. They do their work by entering dangerous websites into a registry for Google to block. The computer than warns users of the dangers of accessing such a site, and won’t let them on the site. Basically, once a website is on Google’s malware registry, no one will ever see the site again. The problem came when one of programmers entered just a slash into...

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Published By: OMGFacts - Friday, 3 August, 2012

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