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Google hacked?
Patriot Room ^ | January 31, 2009 | Clyde Middleton

Posted on 01/31/2009 7:15:38 AM PST by clyde_m

Is anyone else seeing this? Every single search I do in Google comes back with this entry under each result: "This site may harm your computer." Click on any site and I get this warning: "Warning - visiting this web site may harm your computer!" I need to cut and paste the URL to get to my destination.

I searched for an RNC ad on YouTube. Got it. I searched for something else conservative-politics genre - got it. So I searched Google using "anything." Got it.

Am hearing it form readers now, too.

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KEYWORDS: google; hack
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1 posted on 01/31/2009 7:15:39 AM PST by clyde_m
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Seeing the same thing here - probably a major malfunction in the Google database.

Jack


2 posted on 01/31/2009 7:17:57 AM PST by JackOfVA
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Glad it’s not just me. Yahoo is working fine.


3 posted on 01/31/2009 7:18:04 AM PST by mainepatsfan
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Happened the first time I used it today. Then it went back to normal.


4 posted on 01/31/2009 7:18:35 AM PST by LuciaMia
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To: clyde_m

Interesting. Thanks for posting.


5 posted on 01/31/2009 7:19:39 AM PST by PGalt
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Yes.

Thanks for this post, I was wondering if my computer was the problem.


6 posted on 01/31/2009 7:19:49 AM PST by GOPGuide
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To: clyde_m

I am getting it too.

But I used Google earlier this morning, about 5 - 6 AM Eastern time. No message then.

But now about 9 - 10 AM I am getting the message.


7 posted on 01/31/2009 7:19:52 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim
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To: mainepatsfan

But Yahoo (I use AltaVista which is the same) is also doing some of the same stuff that Google is.

Filtering content, but at the same time advocating New Neutrality.


8 posted on 01/31/2009 7:19:58 AM PST by Texas Fossil
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To: clyde_m

I got it today when I did the search using “freerepublic.com.” I guess Google doesn’t like us.


9 posted on 01/31/2009 7:20:02 AM PST by truthkeeper (It's the borders, stupid.)
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Third thread posted about this in the past half-hour. There's more than just one search engine out there.

In fact, there are hundreds, some of which are specialized and just might be more suitable for your particular search than Google.

There's a site, beaucoup.com that contains a compendium of a whole bunch of them.

Frankly it's past time for us all to be boycotting Google, as they're clearly showing their political agenda and skewing what they present to us as what ought to be unbiased search results.

10 posted on 01/31/2009 7:20:09 AM PST by George Smiley (They're not drinking the Kool-Aid any more. Now they're eating it straight out of the packet.)
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There was a note on the side of Fox news last night that Google “fixed the obama google bomb”.

Perhaps they caused a problem aat the same time. Interesting to see they could do it for obama, but not Bush.

Maybe we should just get used to being second class citizens, under the Obama reign. Maybe get some yellow armbands, soon.


11 posted on 01/31/2009 7:20:59 AM PST by I still care (A Republic - if you can keep it. - Ben Franklin)
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Probably not but I got it when searching for recipies with pineapples.


12 posted on 01/31/2009 7:23:21 AM PST by snippy_about_it (The FReeper Foxhole. America's history, America's soul.)
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Guess they don’t like pineapples either. ;-)


13 posted on 01/31/2009 7:25:17 AM PST by truthkeeper (It's the borders, stupid.)
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To: clyde_m
google_harm
14 posted on 01/31/2009 7:26:24 AM PST by markomalley (Extra ecclesiam nulla salus)
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Now that’s funny


15 posted on 01/31/2009 7:33:41 AM PST by KirbDog
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To: clyde_m

I had that problem also. I uninstalled google. No more problem. ;0)


16 posted on 01/31/2009 7:52:08 AM PST by seemoAR
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To: clyde_m
There was a problem with their malware detection engine. See this for more info.
17 posted on 01/31/2009 7:56:31 AM PST by DaisyCutter
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Google is a bad place. Use Yahoo or dogpile. google is big brother.
18 posted on 01/31/2009 7:56:47 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ (Chevron 7 will not engage!)
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4949868&mesg_id=4950005

I took a look at the champions of free speech and look what I found

19 posted on 01/31/2009 8:01:51 AM PST by skimask (Never argue with an idiot, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience)
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To: clyde_m

Yeah, it was hacked.

Yesterday it was hacked in a different way - every search kept bringing up pages of the same click-through websites that have no content and just want you to click on them so they get hits. All my regular searches were bringing that stuff up. It was fixed a while later.


20 posted on 01/31/2009 8:24:31 AM PST by ReagansShinyHair
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