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Google Images Hacked? Searches Bring Up Images of Russian Car Accident

46 points by tmcb 12y ago

xmpir 12y ago
for me it works as usual
tux3 12y ago
This has been all over the web for the past 5 hours. As usual it's probably nothing.
- thisjepisje 12y ago
  There's images of car crashes and Kevin Durant all over google images, that's quite something if you ask me.
  - tux3 12y ago
    What I meant is, it's probably a bug, not a major hack or paranormal magic (as oposed to normal magic) like some have claimed.
imd23 12y ago
Maps is also affected.
- sp332 12y ago
  How is maps affected?
  - crazypyro 12y ago
    It shows red traffic on every road, due to excessive crashing. (Only joking)
GFischer 12y ago
It's made headlines for my country's biggest newspaper http://www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/busqueda-fotos-google-alterada.html http://www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/busqueda-fotos-google-a... and I can confirm it affects Uruguay (and it looks like all of South America as well).
- talles 12y ago
  Brazil here. Affecting us here too.
- pacey 12y ago
  I'm just getting reports from some German ISP customers being also affected while customers of other providers in the same area are not seeing any issues.
wil421 12y ago
Works for me just fine. Why do people say something was "hacked" every time a technical issues arises? Did something actually happen or is it just a bug somewhere?
- bindirector 12y ago
  Russian car accident images being ubiquitously dumped to unsuspecting Internet users via a common resource as Google Image Search absolutely _reaks_ of 4chan. Tossing in Durant just somehow seems to shore it up. I'd be very surprised if this were just a bug.
  - tux3 12y ago
    4chan was as clueless as everyone else, this time.
  - comboy 12y ago
    It's a cache problem, and it's clearly visible once you click on specific image. Here's an "official" thread: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/gNvWXP4-0JE/discussion https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/gNv...
    - GFischer 12y ago
      This is an answer by a Google employee: "Thanks for your question. At the moment we have nothing to share beyond that it's a technical issue on our end" https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/websearch/gNvWXP4-0JE/oah-LVig9c8J https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/websearch/gNvWXP4-0JE...
  - golergka 12y ago
    I would argue that it doesn't If it was 4chan, it would be nazi cp guro car accident.
talles 12y ago
An official statement by Google would be great
xg15 12y ago
As the Kevin Durant image is also a popular image for memes, this would actually speak for a hack. Without having read the reddit thread, has anyone checked the pages that are actually "found" by the image searches? It seems kind of unusual to me that this single image is actually hosted often enough that so many hits can appear in the search, hacked or not.

46 points by tmcb 12y ago

xmpir 12y ago

for me it works as usual

tux3 12y ago

This has been all over the web for the past 5 hours. As usual it's probably nothing.

thisjepisje 12y ago
There's images of car crashes and Kevin Durant all over google images, that's quite something if you ask me.
- tux3 12y ago
  What I meant is, it's probably a bug, not a major hack or paranormal magic (as oposed to normal magic) like some have claimed.

imd23 12y ago

Maps is also affected.

sp332 12y ago
How is maps affected?
- crazypyro 12y ago
  It shows red traffic on every road, due to excessive crashing. (Only joking)

GFischer 12y ago

It's made headlines for my country's biggest newspaper http://www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/busqueda-fotos-google-alterada.html http://www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/busqueda-fotos-google-a... and I can confirm it affects Uruguay (and it looks like all of South America as well).

talles 12y ago
Brazil here. Affecting us here too.
pacey 12y ago
I'm just getting reports from some German ISP customers being also affected while customers of other providers in the same area are not seeing any issues.

wil421 12y ago

Works for me just fine. Why do people say something was "hacked" every time a technical issues arises? Did something actually happen or is it just a bug somewhere?

bindirector 12y ago
Russian car accident images being ubiquitously dumped to unsuspecting Internet users via a common resource as Google Image Search absolutely _reaks_ of 4chan. Tossing in Durant just somehow seems to shore it up. I'd be very surprised if this were just a bug.
- tux3 12y ago
  4chan was as clueless as everyone else, this time.
- comboy 12y ago
  It's a cache problem, and it's clearly visible once you click on specific image. Here's an "official" thread: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/gNvWXP4-0JE/discussion https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/gNv...
  - GFischer 12y ago
    This is an answer by a Google employee: "Thanks for your question. At the moment we have nothing to share beyond that it's a technical issue on our end" https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/websearch/gNvWXP4-0JE/oah-LVig9c8J https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/websearch/gNvWXP4-0JE...
- golergka 12y ago
  I would argue that it doesn't If it was 4chan, it would be nazi cp guro car accident.

talles 12y ago

An official statement by Google would be great

xg15 12y ago

As the Kevin Durant image is also a popular image for memes, this would actually speak for a hack. Without having read the reddit thread, has anyone checked the pages that are actually "found" by the image searches? It seems kind of unusual to me that this single image is actually hosted often enough that so many hits can appear in the search, hacked or not.