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Subject: BS: What has happened to Google? From: DonMeixner Date: 03 Oct 03 - 05:56 PM Did Google go south and I missed it? Whats up? Any ideas? Don |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: Don Firth Date: 03 Oct 03 - 06:01 PM Dunno. I just tried it and there it was. Still alive. Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: MudGuard Date: 03 Oct 03 - 06:01 PM google.de (Germany), google.at (Austria), google.ch (switzerland), google.it (Italy), google.fr (France) as well as google.com all work fine for me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: DonMeixner Date: 03 Oct 03 - 06:05 PM Must be a local phenom. I can't get it to load no matter what I try. Don |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 03 Oct 03 - 06:14 PM See if www.google.co.uk works any better for you. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: GUEST,pdq Date: 03 Oct 03 - 06:26 PM Maybe you want to try "WiseNut" : http://WiseNut.com/ It seems to do the same job and has absolutely no adds or obnoxious flashing graphics. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: Ebbie Date: 03 Oct 03 - 06:42 PM Today's Yahoo News: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser have been exploited again, security experts said on Thursday, this time by a Trojan horse that redirected traffic from more than 100 popular Web sites to an IP address designated by the attacker. The Trojan, dubbed Qhosts and Delude.B by various anti-virus vendors, redirected traffic on compromised machines from a large number of legitimate sites--primarily search engines, among them those found at AltaVista, Google, Lycos, MSN, and Yahoo. According to Computer Associates, requests to surf to those search sites were shunted instead to a Web site that was taken offline within 24 hours of the Trojan's appearance. Don M., it wouldn't have anything to do with this, would it? |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: Mr Red Date: 03 Oct 03 - 07:01 PM I had problems with Google and went to alltheweb.com but it was not predictable because I got to a working google via different routes. I may have been at my ISp anyway. who knows. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: Bill D Date: 03 Oct 03 - 07:01 PM wisenut may be fine, but it has VERY little information about its reach and origins. If you want something close to Google in speed, access and power, there is only one real alternative right now...http://www.alltheweb.com/ it does NOT have ads or biased search parameters.It doesn't do usenet searches, as Google has that locked up, but everything else is as good as Google. (AltaVista is still good, too!) _______________________________________________________________________ "AlltheWeb combines one of the largest and freshest indices with the most powerful search features that allow anyone to find anything faster than with any other search engine. AlltheWeb indexes billions of web pages, hundreds of millions of multimedia, Audio and FTP files, as well as tens of millions of PDF and MS Word® files. AlltheWeb scans the entire web every 7 - 11 days to ensure that our content is fresh and that there are no broken links. AlltheWeb supports searching in 49 different languages. Our News search provides up to the minute news from thousands of news sources all across the globe. We index hundreds of stories every minute. Most importantly, we provide you the control necessary to search for what you are looking for. AlltheWeb has the most sophisticated advanced search features by far. Try it out." |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: Gareth Date: 03 Oct 03 - 07:11 PM And there I was, trying to use Google to find my favorite "Hot Ewes" site, and I could not find Google - Ahhhhhh frustration. Gareth |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: GUEST,pdq Date: 03 Oct 03 - 07:16 PM Bill D. - I have been trying to find out about the death of Skip Battin and WiseNut gave endless sites about everything from discographies to cemetaries is Arkansas. AlltheWeb got me to a sight with the proper information in minutes. It is now in my dock. Thanks. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: DonMeixner Date: 03 Oct 03 - 07:19 PM Ebbie, thats about right. Bill, I gotta disagree, Google seems to work best for my type of searches. Hot Ewes indeed, :-) Don |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: Bill D Date: 03 Oct 03 - 07:41 PM oh, I USE Google, I just can't stand not knowing the others are there, and sometimes, as pdq says...*grin* |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: GUEST,pdc Date: 03 Oct 03 - 08:40 PM If you can't get Google, it's important to note what you ARE getting. There are a lot of browser hijackers these days that nicely redirect your search to whatever web site(s) they are promoting. There is a piece of freeware called Hijack This (link below) that is extremely fast, and will remove any browser hijacker you have. You need to know what you are doing, as when you run Scan with this program, it shows a whole list of what runs through or via your browser. But if you look at the list carefully, you can usually spot the ugly intruder. Also, Hijack This allows you to highlight anything you aren't certain about, then click for more info on it. Good luck -- I had three of the damned things, and got rid of them all. Download Hijack This |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: nutty Date: 04 Oct 03 - 03:31 AM I use www.teoma.com as an alternative to Google, particularly when searching for lyrics. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: John MacKenzie Date: 04 Oct 03 - 04:36 AM I like Dogpile Giok |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 04 Oct 03 - 04:41 AM Maybe that was Max's experiment - to take over Google and thus THE WORLD!!! It's amazing what these techies get up to when the girls are away for the weekend.... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: GUEST,John Date: 04 Oct 03 - 06:07 AM I downloaded GuruNet. This search engine connects to Google successfully even when Google UK is offline. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: Tam the Bam (Nutter) Date: 04 Oct 03 - 06:39 AM I have had any problems with Google, maybe it was just a clitch, I don't know. Tom |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: DonMeixner Date: 04 Oct 03 - 09:47 AM pdc, Thanks a lot. That cleared it up just fine. And a bunch of problems I didn't realize were problems. Thanks, Don |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: GUEST,pdc Date: 04 Oct 03 - 12:39 PM You're welcome! Oh, I feel so...techie! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: Bassic Date: 04 Oct 03 - 12:49 PM pdc, tried to run Hiyjack This but it wont open for me, says I have a file missing or something. Anyway, are we talking about the same stuff that Spybot gets rid of here? If so I will stick with that cos I know it works on my pc. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 04 Oct 03 - 01:51 PM I downloaded Hijack This and installed it with WinZip - but now the PC has an error message saying "A required .DLL file, MSVBVM60.DLL was not found. So I do a find and there's an icon for this sitting there, and its been unzipped and so forth. But the error message is still there... |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: GUEST,pdc Date: 04 Oct 03 - 03:31 PM Below is a different website from which you can download Hijack This. The one I sent you may have a problem -- I'm pretty sure that the one listed below is the latest version. Bassic, AFAIK, Spybot does not eliminate browser hijackers unless you buy the Pro version (I have the freeware version). By the way, if you are missing a dll file on any software, you can do a Google search for the specific file (include the .dll extension). You quite often come up with an excellent "dll site" which you can then bookmark. Good luck with this site: http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/ |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: Linda Kelly Date: 04 Oct 03 - 05:43 PM I misread and thought it said what has happened to Goole?-nope its always been that awful ! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 04 Oct 03 - 05:48 PM The puzzle was that I actually appear to have the missing .dll file, but the program can't recognise it... |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: Bill D Date: 04 Oct 03 - 06:22 PM McGrath..it often depend on where the .dll needs to be located...it may need to be in the windows/system folder, OR in the program folder...or both. That is a VERY common file, so it may just need a copy somewhere else. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: GUEST,pdc Date: 04 Oct 03 - 06:37 PM Bill D is right -- I checked my version, and the .dll file is not in the program file, only in the Windows System folder. Stick it in there, McGrath -- even if it's wrong, it won't hurt to have that file in your Systems folder. Fingers crossed for you. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: Dave the Gnome Date: 05 Oct 03 - 12:40 PM Found mine had gone up the spout while I have been away in sunny Spain! Seems to have been Qhosts or some such as I found an erroneous DNS entry and a perculiar hosts file. The Hijack program does NOT fix this! The only way I could resolve it was to set the netwrok DNS search back to automatic and remove the odd host files. It's fime now. Cheers Dave |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: Nigel Parsons Date: 05 Oct 03 - 12:47 PM Google is working fine for me, I just can't find Mudcat anywhere....... |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: harpgirl Date: 05 Oct 03 - 01:00 PM I can't get google or yahoo. Help! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: GUEST,pdq Date: 05 Oct 03 - 01:14 PM What if Mudcat, Yahoo and Google all go off at the same ti..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: Dave the Gnome Date: 05 Oct 03 - 04:07 PM Open up your local area network properties. Highlight the TCP/IP section and open up the properties for that. Make sure you have either the same DNS server(s) that your ISP provided or check the box that says 'Obtain DNS server automatically'. Next do a search for files that are called 'hosts' and delete them. If you must have a hosts table for any reason you will be aware how to use it. Just delete the erroneous entries from it. Should do the trick:-) Cheers DtG |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 05 Oct 03 - 06:31 PM Just had a look there - found a couple of icons which, when I right clicked and looked at "properties", described themselves as SAM files, created on 20 September 20 2003 and modified on 23 April 1999. How are these things on my computer evidently able to travel backwards in time? |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: C-flat Date: 06 Oct 03 - 01:02 PM Google looks OK to me! C-flat |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: Bill D Date: 06 Oct 03 - 01:39 PM ah, yes...the Spanish version.. "El Goog"! (I saw it in Klingon somewhere once) |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: Bill D Date: 06 Oct 03 - 01:43 PM as a quick Daqmey pat search would have found! |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: Bassic Date: 06 Oct 03 - 02:58 PM Thanks all. Got my missing .dll file as instructed and have now got Hijackthis. It has scanned and given me a long list of stuff that I simply dont understand. I will consult with a friend who knows about these kind of things about what to get rid of. Thanks again for the help. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: Amos Date: 06 Oct 03 - 03:19 PM Slashdot, the geek news site, also reports some weird behaviour with Google lately. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 17 Nov 03 - 09:55 PM Google seems to be okay, but what about Amazon.com? It seems to have crashed and burned this evening. There's not getting past an error meessage: We're sorry! An error occurred when we tried to process your request. Rest assured, we're already working on the problem and expect to resolve it shortly. In the meantime, please note that if you were trying to make a purchase, your order has not been placed. We apologize for the inconvenience. [continue shopping] on the Amazon.com home page SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 17 Nov 03 - 11:09 PM It's back now, but it was gone for a while. Unusual--Amazon is normally a very stable site. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 18 Nov 03 - 12:00 AM MONEY makes the world go around.....
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: Mr Red Date: 18 Nov 03 - 04:32 PM the search engine became a search engine to find search engines. Purchasers of search engines also purchased lists of search engines and marmite labels and Punch the Horse ephemera. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: Peace Date: 19 Nov 03 - 03:05 PM Punch the Horse is NOT ephemera. He's all guy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: What has happened to Google? From: GUEST,pattyClink. Date: 19 Nov 03 - 05:33 PM Thanks for this thread. I've had myself hijacked away from EVERY search engine I tried to use in EVERY browser, to some stupid domain-name site. Really frustrating. There weren't any virus-fixes for this problem last time I looked, so I've been just waiting it out a few more days until I get a new PC setup, it was time to move to a new OS anyway. But, it's nice to know I'm not crazy. |
