Google is Down

Firefox Google Error October 23, 2006I sat down to do some work around 9:15 EST tonight - fired up my little Dell laptop…

….waited for my Google homepage to load in Firefox…and wait a second….What is this? I open up IE7 and get the same thing.

If I do a search from my Google search box in either browser, all seems fine - search results load perfectly. If I click the logo (which doesn’t look like their logo at all) to go back home - I get the error.

So now I am left to wonder, Is Google - hacked? Down? Seriously?FeedDemon Google Error October 23, 2006

Julian runs over to his oh so superior Mac…and it works fine.

How about the browser in my RSS reader - FeedDemon? Nope - same error.  How about the HP laptop that we have in our Kitchen?

Google loads perfectly…???  Julian says to me:

“Its just your computer. Clearly your browser has been hijacked.”

Ummm, ok - IE7 AND Firefox AND FeedDemon - and ONLY the Google Homepage?

Who has it out for me and Google?

What is going on here? Once I cleared my cache and cookies - everything started to work fine. Now, I have to admit, I pride myself on being a girl with a large amount of geeky computer knowledge - but have no idea what just happened, and I feel a little stupid….Can anyone help tell me what’s up?

1 comment so far ↓

#1 Maureen Sharib on 11.15.06 at 5:29 am

Your headline caught my attention.

What if? Someday - somewhere, the headlines read, “The internet is down”.

What, oh whatever what, are we going to do then?

Maureen Sharib
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513 899 9628

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