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

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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?

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.

4chan was as clueless as everyone else, this time.

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/gNv...

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...

I would argue that it doesn't If it was 4chan, it would be nazi cp guro car accident.

It's made headlines for my country's biggest newspaper

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).

Brazil here. Affecting us here too.

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.

This has been all over the web for the past 5 hours.

As usual it's probably nothing.

There's images of car crashes and Kevin Durant all over google images, that's quite something if you ask me.

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.

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.

Maps is also affected.

How is maps affected?

It shows red traffic on every road, due to excessive crashing. (Only joking)

for me it works as usual

An official statement by Google would be great

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