Google’s Harmful Site Detector, Broken?
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I dont know if anyone else has noticed this, but as of 9:50AM EST, Google’s harmful site detection seems to be on the fritz. As you will see in the attached photo, every single search result appears to be a “harmful site”. Not only is Google showing this “harmful site” link on the search page, but clicking on any search result will elicit a fancy Google page warning of the selected sites possible “harmful” content. This seemed to be happening for every search I completed. Hopefully they get it worked out soon, as this could seriously freak out some less experienced computer users! Aside from that, while some may be able to distinguish on their own which sites are harmful and which are not, this acts as a sort of false positive, again making it difficult for novice users. Image below!
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