Comments on: Historical?

Historical?

Duug — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 09:27:12 -0800

Google has crashed? Is this an historic moment? I'm stunned.

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 09:31:27 -0800

Holy crap. Google? I was having a search problem, and I thought I had just encountered Google censorship! -----beginning of Google pay per search service???------- Could it be IRAQ?...... or........SATAN!

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 09:35:03 -0800

Why don't we look at /. to find out what's going on?

By: psmealey

psmealey — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 09:35:39 -0800

Nah, couldn't be that.

By: tommasz

tommasz — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 09:37:44 -0800

It works for me at 12:37 EST.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 09:39:04 -0800

it's a vast corporate/right wing/pro war netwide DDOSing! where's my fucking duct tape?!?!

By: XQUZYPHYR

XQUZYPHYR — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 09:40:23 -0800

Google has crashed? Is this an historic moment? I'm stunned. No, no, who cares?

By: Dunvegan

Dunvegan — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 09:41:41 -0800

Fascinating. Just a moment ago I was doing Google searches, and...suddenly...it began to error out with the following message: "Server Error The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request. Please try again in a minute or so" Think we'll find out what's going on by looking HERE?

By: Voyageman

Voyageman — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 09:43:12 -0800

In the meantime alltheweb is looking great.

By: zerofoks

zerofoks — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 09:47:22 -0800

And then there is always the cache...

By: Duug

Duug — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 09:48:07 -0800

Hmmm, 'Your search - Christmas - did not match any documents'. Au contraire XQUZYPHYR, it does indeed seem to be in trouble.

By: PenDevil

PenDevil — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 09:52:23 -0800

it's back up for me.

By: dabitch

dabitch — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 09:53:39 -0800

it started the google-dance the other day.. as google.com switches machines is it possible the dns is having a hard time catching up? naah.....

By: dabitch

dabitch — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 09:54:38 -0800

meant to add this link to the above: google dance

By: dash_slot-

dash_slot- — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 09:55:22 -0800

Searched the web for Christmas . Results 1 - 10 of about 18,800,000. Search took 0.06 seconds. What's wrong with that?

By: dabitch

dabitch — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 09:55:27 -0800

zerofoks - that cache is pretty funny...

By: feelinglistless

feelinglistless — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 10:14:48 -0800

Seems OK to me ... looks like they've sorted out this particular outrage. In future, shouldn't this kind of post go to googletalk?

By: elpapacito

elpapacito — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 10:39:27 -0800

Looks down a 18:43 GMT

By: rogue

rogue — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 10:53:00 -0800

From what I understand, Google spans multiple machines at multiple server farms... all with their own local copies of the search DB's. (That's why people have noted different numbers for search results.) So if service seems down when visiting http://www.google.com/ try http://google.com/ for a different IP, or ask ns1.google.com - ns4.google.com for another one. :)

By: WolfDaddy

WolfDaddy — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 11:04:25 -0800

duct tape is a petroleum product, quonsar. I'm on to you and your agenda. Google fine for me all day. Maybe someone's trying to get at them for blurring out David's naughty bits the other day.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 11:23:47 -0800

dabitch: fabulous link! must see http! everyone go see. WolfDaddy: "curses! foiled again!"

By: shabrem

shabrem — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 11:24:14 -0800

Sites go down occasionally. Get over it.

By: Ufez Jones

Ufez Jones — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 11:32:26 -0800

Maybe Blogger affected Google more than vice versa, eh? I kid, I kid!

By: Big_B

Big_B — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 11:49:21 -0800

from cache'd page: Google is not affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its content. au contraire...

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 12:21:00 -0800

Sites go down occasionally. Get over it. people are assholes occasionally. get over yourself.

By: WolfDaddy

WolfDaddy — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 12:42:55 -0800

From the googledance link: The Google search engine pulls its results from more than 10,000 servers which are which are simple Linux PCs that are So, if Google is crashing, does that mean it's without the neccesary means necessary means to function?

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 13:32:55 -0800

What I want to lknow about Google is who does the Language Tools? I first thought it was a hack, but it's been months. Search with them all!

By: dg

dg — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 14:43:49 -0800

I think Ufez Jones may be on to something here ;-).

By: Dennis Murphy

Dennis Murphy — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 15:09:34 -0800

Ev and company can fuck up anything.

By: benjh

benjh — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 16:00:23 -0800

MetaFilter: Google's Network Status Page

By: eddydamascene

eddydamascene — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 16:23:22 -0800

A failed Google dance in progress back in 2002. Notice the decrease in activity in the fringe data centers; several of the older machines appear to be crashing. What is Google hiding?

By: ed

ed — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 23:31:43 -0800

GoogleFilter

By: salmacis

salmacis — Mon, 10 Mar 2003 02:04:44 -0800

The real interesting part to this is how Google is dominating the internet. Seriously, how fucked would you be if Google just disappeared tomorrow? At work, just about every programming or system administration problem can be solved with a quick Google Groups query. If I'm mucking about with my Linux box, Google gives me the answer. No other search engine comes anywhere near giving me the results that Google does. It can't be a good thing to rely on one company so much.

By: ralawrence

ralawrence — Mon, 10 Mar 2003 02:31:16 -0800

I saw someone recommending alltheweb. However I question a search engine who thinks that an incorrectly installed version of my tellyguide script is more relevant than the actual homepage. Thankfully Google gets it right.

By: catchmurray

catchmurray — Mon, 10 Mar 2003 08:43:17 -0800

Teoma isn't too shabby these days.

By: walrus

walrus — Mon, 10 Mar 2003 09:54:12 -0800

Teoma appears to be only accepting paid submissions of links. That means it won't index the sites I'm mainly interested in.

By: mecran01

mecran01 — Mon, 10 Mar 2003 12:35:18 -0800

It's the curse of Blogger.

By: catchmurray

catchmurray — Wed, 12 Mar 2003 06:33:19 -0800

My site comes up on 1 (2) and 3 if you search for tv advert music. Hopefully that doesn't seem much like a shameless plug, but it is the only way I could prove that it isn't all about paid listings... I don't pay for any of that stuff!

By: walrus

walrus — Wed, 12 Mar 2003 07:36:54 -0800

Fair enough. However, I can give you plenty of examples of sites which come top in google but are not listed in Teoma. I tried to submit one of my sites to Teoma following your comment here (it's unlisted in Teoma (although they are listing some non-existent pages on another server which formed part of my site nearly six months ago), but comes top on the identical google search. When I tried to submit the site, I was asked for $30 for a one year registration period.