Google Blog is back

Posted on Wednesday, March 29 2006 @ 18:53 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

Yesterday night the official Google Blog mysteriously disappeared.

It was speculated the reason for the outage was a hacker but it appears to be that it was a mistake by Google. They accidentally deleted the blog which enabled someone else the claim it:

We've determined the cause of tonight's outage. The blog was mistakenly deleted by us (d'oh!) which allowed the blog address to be temporarily claimed by another user. This was not a hack, and nobody guessed our password. Our bad.

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Thomas De Maesschalck

Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.

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