Thursday, January 30, 2014

Google glitch inundates normal man’s Hotmail account with thousands of outage …

<p>Having your name or contact information associated with an incorrect Google search is never fun. Unfortunately, for David Peck, it gets a bit worse than that.</p><p>Peck, through no fault of his own, managed to somehow have his email address associated with searches for the word "Gmail" during the most unfortunate time one could think of to be matched up against that term: Friday's temporary Gmail outage that follows a string of downtime glitches from last year.</p><p>Even stranger, the outage wasn't the source of Peck's unlucky association. Google recently released the following statement about the seemingly overflowing email accounts of Peck and others who have been caught up in the Gmail linking glitch.</p><p>"Due to a technical glitch, some email addresses on public webpages appeared too prominently in search results. We've fixed the issue and are sorry for any inconvenience caused," reads a statement provided by Google.</p><p><a href="http://www.itproportal.com/2014/01/27/google-glitch-sends-thousands-of-emails-to-ordinary-mans-hotmail-account/">Keep reading...</a></p>

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