D0GG Posted May 9, 2005 Share Posted May 9, 2005 Google engineers are investigating the cause of a problem that shut down the company's search engine and email services on Saturday 7 April.Services were suspended between 11.45pm and midnight. Some users trying to access the page were redirected to a search engine called SoGoSearch, suggesting that the problem may have been at the Domain Name System (DNS) server level."It was not a hacking or a security issue," Google spokesman David Krane told Associated Press."Google's global properties were unavailable for a short period of time. We have remedied the problem and access to Google has been restored worldwide."However, Krane indicated that the company is treating it as a DNS issue. Problems at this level would almost certainly involve someone accessing one of the main servers and reassigning Google's address to a third party.In 2003 a sustained denial of service attack partially shut down many parts of the DNS system, and last month the National Academies Research Council warned that the system is in need of an urgent upgrade.Source----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------It seems like this redirect was done to make money. It should be called SoGoAdSearch... cuz thats all it is. This is what the results display if you search for "firefox"Results for firefox at Mon, 9 May 2005 13:02:26 -0400...Buy Firefox(1) Shop for Firefox from 600+ merchants with one cart. Hundreds of trusted merchants. Thousands of popular brands. Millions of great products. One simple check out. SHOP.COM. Do you SHOP.COM?Web page at shop.comInformation about Firefox(2) Firefox is: A web browser; see Mozilla Firefox. An animal; see Red Panda. A 1982 Clint Eastwood movie; see Firefox. An alias of Roni SizeWeb page at thefreedictionary.comClean Spyware/Fix Errors - Free Scanners(3) Do you get Error messages, or is your PC simply not working the way its supposed to. Chances are you're infected with Spyware or Adware. Remove Spyware and Clean Errors Now!Web page at trojan-scan.com10,000 FREE Smileys. For IMs and Email +(4) 10,000 FREE Smiley Faces for Texts, IM's and Emails. Includes Search assistant.Web page at greatbuyz.netAnyways, I would have just redirected google.com to http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gir489 Posted May 9, 2005 Share Posted May 9, 2005 Humm? *rasies one eyebrow* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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