As I'm sitting here, trying to do research for a project, Google just isn't coming up. I don't know what the problem is, but it's not at my end. And suddenly my perspective changed. That little box in the corner of my Firefox is now useless...my home page, also useless. I found myself thinking back to a time before Google...how would I have found stuff on the Web back then?
So I ended up going back to Yahoo! It was weird, sort of like running into an ex-girlfriend after leaving your current girlfriend's house. How much should you say? You need to be careful not give the wrong signals because you know somehow your girlfriend would find out if you did and make your life hell.
But yet everytime I do my initial search and look at the first result, my instinct is to type further search terms into the Google box on Firefox. Damn, it still doesn't work. I guess I'll head over to Yahoo! again. Oh wait, I can change the search box to use Yahoo!...hmmmmmm. Maybe this isn't the end of the world, maybe I will be able to still find things on the Internet. It'll take a little while to get used to the change, but maybe there is still a spark there that could bloom into something real.
I'm sorry for all the mean things I ever said about you, Yahoo!. You said some thing, I said some things, and Google was just so much sexier at the time. But now, well, now I've come to appreciate you more. No, I promise it's not just because Google disappeared...
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Betting Exchange says:
Google suffered a pretty long outage saturday evening, due to some DNS glitches, according to company spokesperson. All Google services were down for a while, including Gmail and Google AdSense. There seems to be a DNS hijack, as some screen grabs show that Google.com was redirecting to another site, SoGoSearch.com.
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