Despite spending most of my working week sat in front of a computer, I have been spending much of my saturday on my laptop in my front room. While searching for some new fonts, I noticed that ALL the websites shown in Google’s search engine results pages (SERPs) had the warning “this site may be harmful for your computer”. One of the websites in the list was well known to me, so I knew that it was safe to continue. This took me to a warning page where I had to paste the link of the page into my address bar, as it wouldn’t let me continue any further.
Slightly perplexed as to why this site had been marked as potentially harmful, I checked Google for a few other keywords. Indeed all the websites that appeared in the SERPs (including my own and some well known sites such as the BBC website, the Met Office etc) all had the same warning. The only sites that weren’t marked included YouTube and other Google owned sites.
So it would appear Google’s algorithm for checking the trustworthiness of a website had temporarily gone down - possibly signalling an update or some downtime. It will be interesting to find out what changes were made and how many people were affected during the downtime.
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i cant open website in google help plz