Comments on: This Site May Harm Your Computer – The Day Google Broke http://www.lgr.ca/blog/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-error.html Bringing the Internet into Focus! Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:18:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: LGR http://www.lgr.ca/blog/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-error.html#comment-906 LGR Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:45:47 +0000 http://www.lgr.ca/?p=1121#comment-906 True that incident probably did not hurt anyone to much, but how often do they label sites incorrectly with that label? Considering how hard it is to contact a real person at Google it could take weeks to have a false positive removed. True that incident probably did not hurt anyone to much, but how often do they label sites incorrectly with that label? Considering how hard it is to contact a real person at Google it could take weeks to have a false positive removed.

]]> By: Josh http://www.lgr.ca/blog/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-error.html#comment-905 Josh Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:54:10 +0000 http://www.lgr.ca/?p=1121#comment-905 It was one brief 40 minute slipup on a Saturday morning. I don't think it really hurt anybody's sales too much. Still, it was kind of cool to see Google screw up for a change. It was one brief 40 minute slipup on a Saturday morning. I don’t think it really hurt anybody’s sales too much. Still, it was kind of cool to see Google screw up for a change.

]]> By: LGR http://www.lgr.ca/blog/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-error.html#comment-904 LGR Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:03:01 +0000 http://www.lgr.ca/?p=1121#comment-904 That is funny considering you came to my site from the Google blog. I can only guess that you don't have a website since you did not leave a URL, but what do you think the implications would be to your website if Google flagged it as "Harmful"? Do you think it would hurt your sales, visitors, contact leads? These kinds of problems do matter and affect webmasters of every size. The average person might not understand what that flag means when they see it on the searches and the fact that Google flagged all sites like that I can imagine that the average Internet user was probably pretty confused by them. Thanks for stopping by That is funny considering you came to my site from the Google blog.

I can only guess that you don’t have a website since you did not leave a URL, but what do you think the implications would be to your website if Google flagged it as “Harmful”? Do you think it would hurt your sales, visitors, contact leads? These kinds of problems do matter and affect webmasters of every size. The average person might not understand what that flag means when they see it on the searches and the fact that Google flagged all sites like that I can imagine that the average Internet user was probably pretty confused by them.

Thanks for stopping by

]]> By: Carsten http://www.lgr.ca/blog/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-error.html#comment-903 Carsten Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:50:01 +0000 http://www.lgr.ca/?p=1121#comment-903 Jeeez get a life and stop writing about 'problems' that doesn't matter. Jeeez get a life and stop writing about ‘problems’ that doesn’t matter.

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