Monday, February 2, 2009

"The human factor" has broken down the Google

On Saturday, the search engine Google's request, issued a list of sites that are marked as potentially dangerous for your computer. When you try to open any site showing a warning "This site may harm your computer."

The system was itself quite adequately, we choose a different search result - but the problem was that every site you see Google, in the last 40 minutes were marked as potentially dangerous. Error was corrected fairly quickly, but the total loss suffered by businesses of various search engine companies, amounted to many millions of dollars.

Marissa Mayer, one of the vice-presidents of Google, said in an official company blog that "an error related to the human factor." The point is that Google gets a list of malicious sites in the form of the update file from Stopbadware.org. In the unfortunate morning the file was received, but at the time of his boot someone made a mistake that led to the above problem.


Marissa Mayer also promised a thorough investigation of the incident, as well as to introduce a more reliable verification system files, so that nothing similar will not happen again.