I was planning to check out Google Maps for India.. since I did not remember the exact url for India Map.. i search it in google.. and to my surprise every page in the result had this line under the link “This site may harm your computer.”
And then I clicked on the link (http://www.google.co.in/interstitial?url=http://maps.google.co.in/) and got this page.. i don’t have words to describe this :))
guess some one or some thing got screwed badly at gogole .. Hope they find and fix this soon. Users may ignore this and continue for now..
Update: Looks like there are others also who have seen this happen .. reports are coming from all over the net..
Update: the bug is now fixed as per Google.. here is the official entry on their blog http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-on.html
February 1st, 2009 at 6:35 am
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February 1st, 2009 at 6:38 pm
I tried it just now, didn’t get any such!
What keywords did you use for searching ?
February 1st, 2009 at 10:55 pm
hay manasa.. i had used “google india map” keywords.. they look to have now fixed the bug..
here is the official version on what happened.. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-your-computer-on.html
here is a news report.. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/01/google_this_internet_will_harm.html?hpid=sec-tech