The Day Google Stopped Working
This just happened I was trying to go to my google homepage, and it gave me this error:
(Before you ask me why the hell was I using IE7; I was testing my site’s compatibility with all browser after each site-wide changes. And yes I DO use windows sometimes.)
I am not sure why that happened. I checked in two other boxes with same result, but I had screenshot for only this one. This lasted for about 30 seconds (I kept refreshing my browsers).
Here is a philosophical question, How would you feel if google stopped working for you?
Do tell me…
DIGG!!
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Wow, I’ve never seen that before. That’s wild. Hmm… If Google went down, I would feel scared, ashamed, bored, embarrassed, upset, impatient, and betrayed. But then I’d realize what is probably happening — SkyNet is taking over.
I doubt it was Google going down.
The error page mentions Squid; Squid is a caching web proxy. Were you at work? Does your company’s IT dept have a (sekrit?) transparent Squid proxy to cache (easily spy on?) the pages its employees visit?