Google Blames NGO, NGO Denies
The all-knowing, peace-loving, privacy-aware, humble, selfless Google has finally shown it’s true colors. To cover up for 40 minutes of hilarious search re-direct behavior, Google was quick to post on it’s blog that it wasn’t their fault. Could be. Google blamed the NGO stopbadware.org, saying that it was from them that they got their list of “malware sites” & stopbadware.org had some error in their file which resulted in google’s search flagging google.com & rest of the entire internet as malware.
However, while everyone started tweeting about google’s post wherein a ‘human error’ was stated as the cause, stopbadware.org came out with it’s side of the story:
Google has posted an update on their official blog that erroneously states that Google gets its list of URLs from us. This is not accurate. Google generates its own list of badware URLs, and no data that we generate is supposed to affect the warnings in Google’s search listings.
So much for Google being this user friendly, very humble organization. For God’s sake don’t blame a NGO at least!
Hey google, on a personal note, copy from Microsoft, from whom you copy almost everything. Accept your mistake & move on. Blame a NGO? That sucks. Grow up. You could’ve blamed Ballmer or Yang for it! But a NGO? Yuck thoo! Shame on you.
Your wish is granted, google have updated their THAT post : http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-on.html (Update in blue font)
And this is what the stopbadware.org says :
[]As many know, we have a strong relationship with Google, which is a SPONSOR and PARTNER of StopBadware.org. The mistake in Google’s initial statement, indicating that we supply them with badware data, is a common misperception.[] : http://blog.stopbadware.org/2009/01/31/google-glitch-causes-confusion
See… I knew this incident will give a lot to bash about to us bloggers. Didn’t they say it was human error. I think they meant it in a good way.
And about your comment : “Hey google, on a personal note, copy from Microsoft, from whom you copy almost everything.”
Heh! had a good laugh reading that! Google copying MS. Thats really new!
hey, just realised that ur a Google Basher aswell .. lol
But this incident certainly makes me feel – THE BIG G is not that insulated, not that god as it is referred as…