@ Matt, I do rely on G for a lot of my services online, as for the hiccup, what hiccup?

@ Andrew, Big G pulling a linkbait stunt – never!

I may be a total cynic, but for a while I considered the possibility that this was all carefully orchestrated from the get go. How many tweets and blog posts have been written now and link to Google?

Not that Google are in any need of pulling a linkbait stunt, but this certainly worked as that for them!

It’s not about how bad you mess up, but rather how well you deal with the fallout. Google seem to have dealt with it very well.

This proves that Google is as vulnerable as everyone else and that we shouldn’t rely on the Big G for everything. More than likely, everyone will forget the outage and return to Google, business as usual.

Actually, I didn’t even notice the paid results were working, i was too busy thinking “S**T, what’s happened to my site, it wouldn’t damage a computer!” and “aaaaaaa panic, panic, panic.” Then I calmed down, switched to Yahoo and carried on surfing. Panic over.

If you want to follow what Wayne has to say on Twitter, and he usually has a lot , then follow him at :

http://twitter.com/octane

Outside of Google, others will have learned a great deal from this event.

As an aside, I missed the whole thing .. but hey!

On a more serious note, should we even be seeing malware notices at all? This is a question I asked myself back in May last year, which I then wrote about in a guest article on NowSourcing.

I think Google have got their malware policy completely wrong and it needs sorting right away.

However, had Google got a policy in line with my own thinking, this recent incident wouldn’t have shown anything on Google’s SERPs other than Google’s own properties…