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This is ridiculous... the search result really links to https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=dsp559@hotmail.com
by VMG 13y ago
This is ridiculous... the search result really links to
https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=dsp559@hotmail.com
- new_test 13y agoSomeone's getting fired tonight.
- deletes 13y agoDoes google fire over single( assuming ) mistakes. I didn't think they were that kind of company. Isn't there a voting to determine that?
- birken 13y agoThere is no way Google (or I assume any good employer) would fire an employee would for such a mistake. Mistakes happen, they are a part of life in the technical world. You work really hard to make sure the mistakes are minor (which this one is) and fixable, but they are going to happen. Losing data is really really bad, and if it happens it better be minor and there better be extreme circumstances. If a service goes down, that is bad but shit happens sometimes. Something minor like this is going to make for an entertaining post-mortem, but nothing more. I'm sure Google will do something nice for the person who was affected by it. Easy rule of thumb for operations: Never make the same mistake twice. You learn from every mistake, but new and amazing ways for things to break are always going to happen. Source: I worked at Google in operations and made mistakes that were far worse than this
- zeidrich 13y agoFiring people for making mistakes is a surefire way to ensure that when someone makes a mistake they will do everything they can to cover it up rather than take appropriate action to correct it.
- corin_ 13y agoThere's also an argument that it makes sure other people will be more careful with their work to try to avoid mistakes. I don't think it's the way to go, but there certainly are managers in the world who do. (Hopefully a vast minority.)
- bentcorner 13y agoBesides, this is very likely the result of several things all going wrong at once ("a perfect storm"). It's not like there's some dude that's responsible for the "Email" link, who looked at the link and said "yep, that's about right" and saved it to google.
- elwell 13y agoYes if someone tries to recruit from Apple.
- myko 13y agoWell, hopefully nothing that dire - I can't imagine this would happen. Likely though those responsible for the incident will craft an incident report detailing what went wrong and why, as well as how to prevent it in the future - preferably in an automated fashion.
- taproot 13y agoHumor, on the internet. Never.
- darkarmani 13y agoSomewhere out there, I'm sure someone is getting fired.
- noodly 13y agoand the second one (for "GMail - Google") is: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=material@asvd.sasf.ch
- VMG 13y agoApparently Google indexes those links like any other: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:mail.google.com+mailto#filter=0&q=site:mail.google.com+view+cm+mailto&safe=off https://www.google.com/search?q=site:mail.google.com+mailto#...
- saalweachter 13y agoIt's a really fascinating bug in that respect.
- huhtenberg 13y agoAre you in Switzerland?
- noodly 13y agoNo, Poland.
- josu 13y agoMexico here, same thing.
- ashishb4u 13y agofor me its jeff.morse@d214.org
- sh4na 13y agoYup, same for me here. WTH is going on??
- akennberg 13y agoIt really depends where the crawler is finding these links. I don't think this is a mistake. It's possible that people are adding these links to their site instead of "mailto:" links and crawler is simply indexing them.
- mikeash 13y agoI can totally understand why the crawler would crawl this URL. However, I can't understand how this one specific URL ended up being shown as the second link when you search for "gmail".
- akennberg 13y agoIt's not the only one overall, but this one likely ranks the highest. It also is bundled with gmail because it links to gmail domain (mail.google.com).
- freehunter 13y agoWhen I search it tries to link me directly to an attachment from an email, but tells me my account is suspended. I am already logged into Gmail though, so it might be different.