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 May 9 2005, 01:06 AM
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Newbie  Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: 8-May 05 Member No.: 6,775  |
Google is believed to be down because it got "hacked" on saturday and none of it's services were running, that includes adword, search and gmail. When ever someone tried to log on google, the browser redirects to SoGoSearch.com. Well I didnt knowtice that and didnt know until I heard it in the news....do you think it got hacked or is it just a DNS problem?
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May 9 2005, 01:41 AM
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Moderator Group: Members Posts: 2,325 Joined: 8-March 05 From: Mawson, Antarctica Member No.: 4,254 |
Google would never be hacked. Check it out here: http://digg.com/search?search=google+dns&a...l&submit=Submit
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May 9 2005, 06:51 AM
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Privileged Member Group: Members Posts: 512 Joined: 26-September 04 From: Googland Member No.: 1,278 |
QUOTE(sonic @ May 9 2005, 09:06 AM) Google is believed to be down because it got "hacked" on saturday and none of it's services were running, that includes adword, search and gmail. When ever someone tried to log on google, the browser redirects to SoGoSearch.com. Well I didnt knowtice that and didnt know until I heard it in the news....do you think it got hacked or is it just a DNS problem?  Well, it must be one of those weird things happen sometimes in the web/network/your_own_pc! I have been using all the services of google you have mentioned in your post, including GMAil, Search and AdSense/AdSearch! I had no problem whatsoever with any of those, except for brief delays/non-opening of GMail site occassionally. GMail is anyway in beta testing phase, so it isn't unusual... Did anyone else experience this? |
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May 9 2005, 07:27 AM
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Newbie [Level 3] Group: Members Posts: 47 Joined: 26-December 04 From: mdeo.uy | theBestCityOfTheWorld | dontCome Member No.: 2,956 |
i used google last saturday midnight. i used google search and gmail, and everything worked fine
they may write something in their blog, i'll check it... well, last GoogleBlog update is about Google Mobile, and that was on friday (5/6/2005 11:23:00 AM), so they haven't blogged anything about that |
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 May 9 2005, 11:31 AM
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Member [Level 3] Group: Members Posts: 97 Joined: 30-November 04 From: Portugal Member No.: 2,485 |
Google hacked ?!!
 Well i don't think so, aldo i believe that it can be done ( by some really professional hackers  ) ...microsoft and yahoo got hacked ( at least once ), my guess is you got something messed up in your connection  ...happy to see that everything is ok now  |
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May 9 2005, 01:31 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 110 Joined: 24-March 05 From: London, Ontario Member No.: 4,867 |
QUOTE(sonic @ May 8 2005, 08:06 PM) Google is believed to be down because it got "hacked" on saturday and none of it's services were running, that includes adword, search and gmail. When ever someone tried to log on google, the browser redirects to SoGoSearch.com. Well I didnt knowtice that and didnt know until I heard it in the news....do you think it got hacked or is it just a DNS problem? There are many ways someone could accomplish this without hacking google, it is more likely that a virus replaced the hosts file and pointed google to sogosearch.com's ip address instead. Not a very difficult trick, and it can throw a wrench into the works. You say you heard it on the news? What network? I would be interested in finding out more about this piece of news. |
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May 9 2005, 02:15 PM
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Privileged Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 937 Joined: 14-April 05 From: West Chester, PA Member No.: 5,636 |
No Google was not hacked. They encountered some DNS issues which is probably why the other search page was shown. Most likely an ip address was messed up in the DNS and it just so happened to point to that site.
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 May 9 2005, 10:55 PM
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Newbie [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 20 Joined: 7-May 05 Member No.: 6,771 |
I don't think google was hacked, it seemed perfectly okay when I was on it.
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