Google explains Monday’s outage on its weblog

In a post titled “Global Worming”, Urs Hoelze (VP of Operations and Google Fellow) explains the incident that surprised us all last Monday, July 26th, on Google’s official weblog. And yes, there’s no shortage of humour...

The explanation is that someone sent out the latest version of the MyDoom virus, which carried out a series of automated searches on the world-famous search engine, causing it to go down. It is therefore ruled out that Google was “hacked”.

The humorous touch comes from the “Error-27” page: Google realised that its message for blocked searches was neither friendly nor communicatively informative enough for users… and apologises —and here comes the classic Google humour— by explaining that they never expected to have to show that error message to anyone. Brilliant. It reminds me of the line you can read in the empty “trash” folder of their (still beta) webmail service, GMail: “Who needs to delete email when you have 1000 MB?”.

The post concludes by advising users to check whether their computers are infected with the MyDoom virus.

Original post: GoogleBlog

More humour: Error27

And if that’s not enough: FuckingGoogleIt

You can read this article on Noticias.com: Google explains Monday’s outage on its weblog