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Google mistakenly blamed a little known Harvard organization this weekend for causing an error that briefly caused its search engine to warn users that nearly all Web sites contained potentially harmful malware, or software that could infect or damage a user’s computer without consent...
StopBadware is a research venture of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School and is partly funded by Google. The organization works with the search engine to determine the criteria for identifying potentially harmful Web sites...
Google later backpedaled on its statement, conceding that the glitch had been caused by a simple human error. A forward slash was mistakenly added to a file that contained a list of potentially dangerous Web sites. As a result of this error, nearly every Web page was added to that list...
...Internet age there are very few questions that can't be answered with a simple Google search. And with Web-capable cell phones, there really isn't any need for KGB or the similar service ChaCha (which is free but more annoying because its messages are riddled with ads). So KGB has to distinguish itself by the accuracy and speed of its answers. To find out if the company's service is of any use, we put it to the test, sending different questions at different times throughout the day to 542542 (or "KGBKGB"). Below are the unedited texts...
After nearly four hours and six rounds of voting, the Republican National Committee elected former Lt. Governor Michael Steele as its first-ever African American chairman. Evidently, Steele's rivals had failed to convince the 168-member committee that they could adapt to a post-racial, web-driven political era. Take Chip Saltsman, Mike Huckabee's ex-presidential campaign manager and an early candidate for the RNC seat who dropped out of the race after word spread that he had distributed a song called "Barack the Magic Negro" a few weeks after Obama's victory. The incumbent, Mike Duncan...