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By Paul Gil, About.com Guide to Internet for Beginners since 2004

Google Broke Today.

Saturday January 31, 2009
Yes, Virginia.  Search giants are imperfect, too. Early on January 31, the Google.com search giant experienced a major server malfunction, where search results could not be opened by its readers. Each of the search results also came with a "malware" warning, that certainly frightened and frustrated millions of readers across the globe. Ironically, the culprit behind this Google crash was a single (/) forward slash character.  Christy Matte tells us more about today's Google crash...
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February 1, 2009 at 1:50 am
(1) sriraj says:

Is it? Never noticed that. May that was night time here and was solved by the morning

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