The search button fittex (search) encountered a momentary metamorphosis on Tuesday evening when the word on the button was changed to the standard Maltese insult of calling somebody a penis in a can.
Note: Feel free to insert quip here about the hacked search button. (-:
According to the article, the Googleplex acknowledges the problem but would not comment on the cause.
Postcript: This blog reports that the problem didn’t come from hacking but with the Google program that allows people to translate parts of the Google site.
A plaintiff claims to have lost his job and suffered great humiliation at the hands of Google, which displays more than 10,000 search results “defaming or disparaging” him. Tokyo District Court granted an injunction; Google is reviewing the order.
A couple of fun search results appeared on Bing for a brief period Friday to fuel the fire between Microsoft’s search engine and their nemesis, Google. Here’s what Bing users found searching for “more evil than satan himself” and “hiybbprqag.”
Improve it or remove it. With Google's Panda Update, low-quality content can impact an entire domain, but removing these pages -- or moving them to a different domain…
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