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Errors all over Google SERPS - This site may harm your computer
SEM News Source: http://seogadget.co.uk
Published: Feb 03, 2009 - 02:57 am
Story Found By: richardbaxterseo 1573 Days ago
Category: SEM
People are reporting errors all over Google SERPS with the "This site may harm your computer" under every listing?
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from Harith 1573 Days ago #
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It seems Google has fixed it. Serps back to normal. Thanks to the quick action of Google engineers :-)

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from evilgreenmonkey 1573 Days ago #
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It got me a little worried at first, until I saw Google.com getting flagged as Badware :)

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from LtDraper 1573 Days ago #
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This was submitted 20 minutes after this story: http://sphinn.com/story/99186Makes you wonder about Sphinn. There were comments on the older story in Latest Comments while people were spinning the newer post.

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from evilgreenmonkey 1573 Days ago #
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@LtDraper - Not much to wonder about, people found this post via twitter and the submitter’s blog. The post also had screenshots showing the issue for those that missed it, so it makes sense that more people would Sphinn this submission.

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from richardbaxterseo 1573 Days ago #
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Yep - I twittered this rather heavily but credit due to to everyone who was on this like a shot - @calilewis, seosmarty, techcrunch, davewiner were all twittering like crazy. Now, sadly, the fun is over....

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from Jill 1573 Days ago #
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The official explanation:http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-on.html"We periodically receive updates to that list and received one such update to release on the site this morning. 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."

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from urbankudos 1570 Days ago #
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Yep... just a human error:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7862840.stm

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from Feydakin 1411 Days ago #
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DeSphinning even though it won’t matter.. But the echo chamber on this story was deafening and pointless.. More so than usual..

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