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Google’s Anti Virus Warning: This site may harm your computer

 
Who else saw Google’s “This site may harm your computer” warning on Saturday 31st Jan 2009 at around 2pm GMT time???
I sure did, it appeared for every search I completed using Google UK (with World Wide results); the default search engine for nearly 85% of the UK population (Hitwise data Dec 08).
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Google: Did you mean? Optimising for misspellings just got harder!

Google has recently updated its “Did you mean ?” feature seen when a user enters and search’s a commonly misspelt word.
In the past it has been up to the user to click on the “did you mean” link if they decide that they had entered a typo or misspelling. Now Google has begun to […]

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