[111211] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google search results leading to google "This site may harm your
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Skinner)
Sat Jan 31 18:53:31 2009
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:53:19 +0000
From: Greg Skinner <gds@gds.best.vwh.net>
To: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <63ac96a50901311511o694cd404h86dde90b4dff2524@mail.gmail.com>;
from mpetach@netflight.com on Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 03:11:30PM
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Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 03:11:30PM -0800, Matthew Petach wrote:
> On 1/31/09, aljuhani <info@linuxmount.com> wrote:
> >
> > Now clicking search results forward to "service unavailable" page within google.
> ...
> > Yahoo! search engine seem to be working fine as looks have no affiliation with google
>
> That would be correct; the Yahoo Search engine is not affiliated with Google,
> and was a perfectly acceptable alternative for people needing to perform
> searches while Google was down. Thankfully, there's more than one company
> providing essential services such as search for the Internet, so that we don't
> have to worry about Google being a single point of failure in
> instances like this.
>
> Matt
> just another happy yahoo user ;-P
Competition is good. It keeps us all on our toes.
--gregbo
