Google Downtime

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[quote]Looks like we are having a Google outage - apparently someone has hijacked their Domain, and something called SoGoSearch is showing up instead. GMail was down as well. Google ads are not being served up as well. Am I the only one, or did you guys feel the webquake as well? Man if this is a hack, then we now know nothing - not even god, I mean Google is safe! Is this someone’s idea of teaching them a lesson? Or has the Web Accelerator shown its true colors? Lots of unanswered questions. Here is a screen grab by the way[/quote]

[img]http://www.gigaom.com/images/googlehacked.gif[/img]

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True or not; it would explain the outage for google.com but not the IP's /blum.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':P\' />

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This off a discussion about the downtime; true or not..
[quote]Since the Web Accelorator was launched, google was basically DDoSed by the world. On the SoGo problem, google must have cached that page (www.sogosearch.com) and immedeately gone to it, sort of like an advanced "I'm Feeling Lucky"[/quote]

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UPDATE 3: Ok, to be fair, no one knows for sure that Google got hacked, this story is still developing. But hacked or not, something pretty catastrophic must have happened for them to have a system-wide outage like that. Sounds like there may have been some sort of Denial of Service attack, whether that was combined with a redirect of some kind isn’t entirely clear. We’ll keep you posted.

UPDATE 4: Google is now saying it was a DNS issue. They haven’t said what the source of the issue was.