Google can create or destroy the Internet
It is said that Google is the universe, it is the first page on the Internet – does that not sound a little scary? What if Google refuses to work for just one day? I am sure that would mean a loss of billions of dollars in just over a day. The guys from SouthPark (the TV show) showed us the aftermaths of Internet bring unavailable in their episode titled, “Overlogging”. That was for fun, what if it becomes real?
According to post by Courtney Mills on SearchNews, an error that occured on Google literally stopped everyone’s access to the Internet; at least the share of Internet routed through Google. As per the article,
This occurred at about 6.30am PST on Saturday. During this period all search results in Google were being flagged as malware with a message stating – “This site may harm your computer“.
Google’s own website was no exception to this glitch either. As rightly put by Courtney Mills in her post, Google Broke the Internet!
- Source: SearchNews
Upon clicking a search result, the following page opened.
- Source: SearchNews
Global Piss Off – the untold Prophecy
The glitch reportedly, occured due to human error when an anti-malware update was executed on Google. As per the sources, Google made $5.7 Billion in the last quarter, so per hour it makes around $2.6 Million. Since the glitch happened during early morning hours, the loss is being predicted to be less than average earning that Google makes in peak hours.
This was just a 1 hour outage and just imagine a day without Google. This would mean over 500 million searches that day are jeopardized, leading to nothing. Total chaos that would be, a total entropy over the Internet for one complete day. That day will be remembered as the Global Piss Off Day. Maybe Professor Chaos (from the TV show SouthPark, played by our very own Butters) should try this out one day 
Curry with certain entropy!
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