Techmeme: Google glitch causes confusion (Maxim Weinstein/StopBadware Blog)

5:05 PM ET, January 31, 2009

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Marissa Mayer / The Official Google Blog:

“This site may harm your computer” on every search result?!?! — 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 …

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

Google Flags Whole Internet As Malware — We're not quite sure what's going on, but a couple of minutes ago any search result from Google started being flagged as malware with a message stating “This site may harm your computer”. Including Google's own websites as you can see above.

Maxim Weinstein / StopBadware Blog:

Google glitch causes confusion — This morning, an apparent glitch at Google caused nearly every [update 11:44 am] search listing to carry the “Warning! This site may harm your computer” message. Users who attempted to click through the results saw the “interstitial” …

Discussion: PC World, Data Center Knowledge, Security Fix, Hardware 2.0 and F-Secure Antivirus …

Chris Anderson / Wall Street Journal:

The Economics of Giving It Away — In a battered economy, free goods and services online are more attractive than ever. So how can the suppliers make a business model out of nothing? — Over the past decade, we have built a country-sized economy online where the default price is zero — nothing, nada, zip.

Discussion: paidContent.org

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

Nielsen Deletes Reply-To-All Button — This happened last Tuesday, but we wanted to make sure you're aware that Nielsen management, after years of research, has finally come up with an adequate solution to cluttered e-mail inboxes and inefficiency in office environments …

Discussion: greg hughes and SmoothSpan Blog

MG Siegler / VentureBeat:

Source: Intel prepping for mass roll-out of Android netbooks — As netbook sales continue to pick up in a struggling world economy, Intel, which makes the Atom processor found in many of those netbooks, is looking towards the future of the market. Specifically, it's looking to pave …

Discussion: CrunchGear, GPS Obsessed, Electronista and GottaBeMobile.com

Sean Portnoy / Home Theater:

16:9 wide-screen looks narrow-minded compared to Philips Cinema 21:9 HDTV — It's getting harder to make an HDTV that really stands out, but Philips has gone to great lengths (well, widths) with a new set it's recently unveiled. Forgoing the 16:9 wide-screen aspect ratio most new sets have …

Discussion: DisplayBlog and Engadget

Sean Bonner / Los Angeles Metblogs:

Celebs in public and on twitter, how will it end? — This morning I went to Intelligentsia to grab some espresso, which if you follow me on twitter you know is part of my daily routine. When I got there I noticed that a guy at the counter had a cute dog with him, and since my wife Tara …

Discussion: sarahintampa and Dan Blank

Rachel Gordon / San Francisco Chronicle:

BART signs 20-year deal for Wi-Fi — A pilot project testing high-speed Internet access on portions of BART will expand systemwide, allowing people to surf the Web, send e-mail and videoconference when riding the rails or waiting in the stations. — The goal is to outfit the 104 miles …

Discussion: dailywireless.org and Engadget

Arnold Zafra / Search Engine Journal:

Yahoo to Shut Off Briefcase Online Storage Service — Quite frankly, I already forgot about Yahoo's online storage service despite the fact that it was the first online storage service that I used way back ten years ago. I've used it several times for sharing my scanned photos to my friends online.

Discussion: Download Squad and Webware.com

Elliot Spagat / Associated Press:

APNewsBreak: Justice Department hoaxes employees — SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Justice Department doesn't have to look far to find a scam that preys on people whose retirement plans have been crippled by the global financial meltdown. — It designed one of its own. And e-mailed it to agency employees.

Hiptop3.com:

Sidekick LX 2009 / Blade Will Run NetBSD — Wow, here's a nice shift. Remember all those concerns you guys had about Microsoft switching the Sidekick to *cringe* Windows CE? Well worry no more. The next Sidekick will run the free open source NetBSD operating system. Yes, you read that right.

Discussion: Engadget Mobile and Boy Genius Report

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