I doubt Google were "hacked," more likely widespread DNS poisoning. This is totally different from Google themselves being hacked, because it doesn't involve any of Google's servers being comprised.
I really think they are up to something. But maybe it is just my paranoia! Still, within the same week the adsense and adwords stats frozen for many hours and google everywhere (.com, .co.uk, .es, etc) down? Something is going on!
It looks that Google has been already having problems and this may be related to that... http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum81/5278.htm
Maybe Bill Gates sent a virus via Russia their way, they said on the news tonight that the cold war was heating up
Haha...Our complaints about AS being down may seem trifling but the bottom line is: you never know when those big $$$ clicks are going to happen. Yup. AmCy
Tell us what the thread says because none of us go there because we can't read the threads without paying the pricks Shit we should find out who all the members of WMW are and their IP's and make them pay to get in here
I have just visited three other forums (not WMW) and all have a "Google down" thread... An analysis should be hitting the evening news by Monday or Tuesday.
Google is really bad this month! I only get like .15 cent today , and I think it might be wrong, cuz my range is between $2 - $4 a day
Here's the info: http://isc.sans.org/ Boomark this site, it's the place to get information of big security alerts on the internet.
What is strange is that not ONE of my keywords that I track on DP has moved up or down in the last 12 hours since Google crashed. This has never happened before..
I have just found the same no movement up or down accross 12 keywords a first for me. Perhaps Google has been busy with other tasks a new algo or update or maybe they have been hit by a denial of service attack. I am sure we will find out soon enough.
Here as well.. And the number of indexed pages has stayed exactly the same the last 2-3 days, on ALL datacenters according to McDars tool. Googlebot has been (frightingly) silent as well..