Google's blog address was temporarily claimed by another user
A student from Texas left internet giant Google with egg on its face by taking control of the company's official blog when it went offline yesterday.
The unnamed student tried registering a new blog with the Google-owned Blogger service using the same googleblog name after the search firm's usual page failed to load.
Yesterday the blog carried the message: 'Google, fix your blog pleeassse!'
"Just to clear things up, I'm not associated with Google. I just wanted to take advantage of this before someone else with less worthy intentions did," the site said.
"The username was giving a 404, so I tried registering a new blog with it. Surprisingly, it worked."
Google later admitted that it had accidentally deleted the blog and that there was no widespread hacking problem for Blogger.
"We quickly learned from our initial investigation that there was no system-wide vulnerability for Blogger," Google said.
"The blog was mistakenly deleted by us (doh!) which allowed the blog address to be temporarily claimed by another user. This was not a hack, and nobody guessed our password."
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Nice to hear google is honest
Its nice to hear that google does have normal people working for them. Hopefully no-one got fired over this. Could anyone picture microsoft admitting to something like this.
Posted by ShEePz, 31 Mar 2006
Google is Human
Isn't it nice to see a good person do something good?
Posted by Ronald L. Russman, 29 Mar 2006