Google snafu marked Gmail as spam

Nibble This email may harm your computer

By INQUIRER Staff

Tue Feb 03 2009, 12:34

GOOGLE'S GLITCH last Saturday not only flagged the entire Internet as brimming with malware, it also led the web giant to route incoming Gmail traffic to users' spam folders.

Brad Taylor, a Google software engineer, posted at the Gmail Blog, "Between 6:00 a.m. PST and 8:00 a.m. PST, we mistakenly sent some legitimate mail to people's spam folders."

A fix Google applied Sunday resolved the problem, but it also suggested that its Gmail users might want to check their spam folders. µ

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