Thousands of people experienced a rare event in searches this weekend, as Google began reporting every site listed as a possible source of malware. For several hours, any search result that Google returned was accompanied by the generally user friendly warning that the site was suspected of providing malicious content.
As usually turns out to be the case, the error turned out to be caused by human input. Someone accidentally list “/” in a filter, which flagged every url that ends with the “/” character, which accounts for a majority of sites.
The error was corrected early Sunday morning, and Google issued an apology for the error. For a company that has been very careful about public relations, this error marks one of the first, and hopefully only, times when Google’s search services became inaccessible for an extended period of time.
While this error is not directly related to search optimization, it does underscore the fragility of information dispersal, and how important it is that any URL linking to or away from your site points to where you intend to point. Don’t fall prey to easy blunders that cost your site relevance, and make others wonder what was going through your mind.
Article written by SEOnotepad.com
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