{"id":802,"date":"2009-01-31T15:58:20","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T14:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?p=802"},"modified":"2009-01-31T15:58:20","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T14:58:20","slug":"just-a-google-bug-or-beginning-of-skynet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/just-a-google-bug-or-beginning-of-skynet\/","title":{"rendered":"Just a Google bug or beginning of Skynet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Google (verb)\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Google_%28verb%29\">Googled<\/a> anything today you&#8217;ve noticed that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Google\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/google.com\">Google<\/a> thinks that target page is harmful. You get these results for all the search results, even Google&#8217;s own:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/safariscreensnapz060.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-803\" title=\"Search for Google\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/safariscreensnapz060-300x195.png\" alt=\"Search for Google\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/safariscreensnapz060-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/safariscreensnapz060.png 919w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While it might seem like a simple engineering bug (though it could be expensive in terms of PR and money), I predict a bigger theory of conspiracy behind it.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who&#8217;s ever read a good <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Science fiction\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Science_fiction\">Science fiction novel<\/a> can recall a plot line where central all powerful computer decides that it&#8217;s in best interest of human race to stay away from each other and are &#8220;enslaved&#8221; as a consequence &#8211; since it&#8217;s the best thing for their own good anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Not lets take a look a this Google incident. I say that someone&#8217;s code went loose and correctly flagged whole Internet as harmful. Luckily Google doesn&#8217;t have killler robots on the loose (yet? on their way? should I panic?) so the only consequence is a bit annoying browsing.<\/p>\n<p><em>But still .. when was the last time you&#8217;ve checked your food rations and stocked your bomb shelter with fresh water?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>P.S. according to Twitter trending topics, the connected world is already slowly starting to notice it and slightly panic:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/safariscreensnapz061.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-804\" title=\"Twitter #googmayharm trending topic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/safariscreensnapz061.png\" alt=\"Twitter #googmayharm trending topic\" width=\"431\" height=\"58\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/safariscreensnapz061.png 431w, https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/safariscreensnapz061-300x40.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/a71a4be5-a87b-4491-9cda-189e0cc73e66\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=a71a4be5-a87b-4491-9cda-189e0cc73e66\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve Googled anything today you&#8217;ve noticed that Google thinks that target page is harmful. You get these results for all the search results, even Google&#8217;s own: While it might seem like a simple engineering bug (though it could be expensive in terms of PR and money), I predict a bigger theory of conspiracy behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[672,673,133,674],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","tag-bug","tag-foobar","tag-google","tag-googmayharm"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}