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Gee, thanks Google
February 19, 2008 in Business Ethics, Commentary, Software & Utilities, The Truth Hurts by datapoohbah | 1 comment
A couple of weeks ago I got this rather dubious email from the fine folks at Google. The said that my site was being ranked as ‘possibly’ unsafe.
OK…
They warned me that search engines would display that datapoohbah.com might contain files that could hurt your computer. WTF?
I know I can be harsh at times, and there may be links to some utilities here or there that might be of dubious nature. But there isn’t a damn thing here that’s harmful to your computer.
They claim that my site might have been hacked… Uhm, OK, I’d probably notice if it was but can certainly understand that some folks might not notice. Fair enough.
But what they didn’t do was tell me what exactly it is that they think is “potentially unsafe”.
This is a crock. I couldn’t reply to the email as it was a notification email only. I found the program and sites used to ‘rate’ unsafe sites like mine and have sent several emails asking for clarification. All to no avail.
Thanks Google.
I’ve half a mind to start sending out emails warning that Sergey Brin, just might have an STD. Apparently I don’t need to disclose what STD it is, or even if it’s true.
Tags: bogus, dubious, google, thanks, warnings