So, it appears that google went down today for 20 or so minutes. No one is really quite sure what the hell happened, but all the services went down and people were being re-directed to "Sogosearch.com."
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Not normally something we’d cover, but damn, is Google down? Is such a thing even possible? Anyone know what’s going on?
UPDATE: They’re back! Seriously, anyone have any idea what happened?
UPDATE 2: GigaOm has a screengrab of a site called SoGoSearch that Google.com was redirecting to for a little while there. Sounds like somebody got themselves hacked!
UPDATE 3: Ok, to be fair, no one knows for sure that Google got hacked, this story is still developing. But hacked or not, something pretty catastrophic must have happened for them to have a system-wide outage like that. Sounds like there may have been some sort of Denial of Service attack, whether that was combined with a redirect of some kind isn’t entirely clear. We’ll keep you posted.
UPDATE 4: Google is now saying it was a DNS issue. They haven’t said what the source of the issue was.
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Anyone else hear about this?
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