Google: "The Internet May Harm Your Computer"

For a few hours today, the normally infallible Google had a panic attack of sorts…

An apparent system error left millions of visitors to the site puzzled when links to all search results were flagged with the warning ‘This site may harm your computer’.
It is thought the site had erroneously identified all other websites – and some of its own pages – as containing malicious software or ‘malware’.
The glitch, which prevented internet users from directly clicking through to search results, was fixed within 30 minutes although users of Google’s email service Gmail have since reported finding genuine messages sent mistakenly to spam folders.

…Google runs a great service, but like anything else that becomes a “single point of failure”, reliance has its own set of problems. We won’t even talk about “not being evil.”