Marissa Mayer, Googles, cute(plus hot) but smart VP, Search products and user experience said sorry in a blogpost titled "This site may harm your computer on every search result?!?!"
I am assuming the questions marks and exclaimation marks in the end stress the significance of the issue.
She did give a half baked explaination that would almost make your believe it came from paris hilton or something and here is the explaination:
she says "We periodically update that list and released one such update to 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"
Hmm the url of "/". I wonder if there is a way of explaining this problem in a better way. VP of shit sucks and what not. Get Paris hilton in, she would do as good i'm guessing.
But honestly who cares, the female is hot, when she says sorry you smile and move on.
I'm only wondering how many times did the adword revenues went up during these 40 minutes.
Update: Google blog stops showing trackbacks on their blogpost. And also somehow promotes its own blog post with clarification on top of their search engine for related terms("this site may harm your computer), coincidence? I have never seen Google work that fast for sure. And not showing blogs that link to their blogspot is again somewhat grey.
