For those of you who may have a life not connected to the keyboard, you may have missed it…but it did happen, Google made a mistake! For almost an hour they marked almost every website on the internet as a malware site…even this one!

Now I call it a mistake because it was inadvertent(it had something to do with importing an update to their list of malware sites…go figure), they recognized there was a problem immediately and fixed it as quickly as possible. Then, they explained what happened…transparency!

In trying to find a parallel the only thing that comes to mind is the phone book or maybe classified ads. Both are prone to errors and they take time to fix but we don’t find one error then throw the rest away! Oh sure we may look a little more questioningly at the other listings & ads after finding one in error but one error does not ruin the whole thing.

To the extent this is a one time occurrence, I’m willing to give big G the benefit of the doubt. On the other hand, if something like this becomes a regular thing, then sure, (uggg) I may have to take another look at Y!

Anyway, that’s my two cents worth. Any thoughts?

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