Google reliance?
Google's under fire today for it's weekend gaff which declared every website on the web as potentially unsafe and malicious.
In an unusual slip of professionalism from Google, someone, somewhere at the search giant managed to mark every website as dangerous, rather than a select few. Whilst inconvenient for people (myself included) I managed to navigate to www.live.com and search from there instead, and I'd presumed that's likely what everyone else did, end of story?
Unfortunately not for Google, it seems that their blip is now being debated across the world on various blogs and news sites, the main crux of the argument being - should Google have so much power over the Internet? (source: ZDnet)
It's an interesting argument, but surely an over-reaction to what was essentially a slip up in the early hours of Saturday morning at Google HQ. Whilst it's bad business for websites to be wrongly branded as malicious, It was quite clear that this was a system wide problem and not related to any particular websites. The incident illustrates the trust that people place in Google, but it's a trust that's been earnt over years and every service will occasionally have it's blips. Hopefully Google can learn from this and avoid anything similar in the future.
