Glitch causes world's most popular search engine to classify all web pages as dangerous
(Guardian)
Google placed the internet on a blacklist today after a mistake caused every site in the search engine's result pages to be marked as potentially harmful and dangerous.
The problem affected internet pages across the whole planet, and lasted for around 40 minutes before engineeers were able to fix it.
The glitch centred on Google's malware detector, which is designed to keep internet users from visiting sites Google believes may install malicious software when users browse them. Google blamed "human error" when an engineer tried to add one web address to the list of those deemed suspicious, and mistakenly added them all.
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