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The Case Of The Missing Google Blog
David Utter
Staff Writer
2006-03-28
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For a short time last night, the Official Google Blog contained a single entry - Google, fix your blog pleeasssee! - until intrepid Googlers solved the mystery.
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It all started with a curious entry in the RSS feed from Philipp Lenssen's "Google's Blogs 'n More" page, which aggregates blog entries from Google, Yahoo, and other places. An undated entry from Google's official blog said "Google, fix your blog pleeasssee <3".
Clicking the odd entry should have taken me to the post on Google's blog. Instead, the normal Not Found page on Blogger appeared.
The next post on the Google Blog explained what had happened (emphasis added):
The Google Blog was unavailable for a short time tonight. We quickly learned from our initial investigation that there was no systemwide vulnerability for Blogger. We'll let you know more about what did happen once we finish looking into it.
Update: We've determined the cause of tonight's outage. The blog was mistakenly deleted by us (d'oh!) which allowed the blog address to be temporarily claimed by another user. This was not a hack, and nobody guessed our password. Our bad.
Search Engine Watch snared the entirety of the post made by the blogger, Trey Philips, a student at the University of Texas, including a screenshot, before Google caught on and fixed things:
Google, fix your blog pleeasssee <3
(P.S. Just to clear things up, I'm not associated with Google at all. I just wanted to take advantage of this before someone else with less worthy intentions did. The username was giving a 404, so I tried registering a new blog with it. Surprisingly, it worked. Oh, and no posting URLs in the comments or else they'll be deleted.)
And then the world resumed its normal rotation.
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David Utter is a business and technology writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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