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.
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.
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.
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[ 5.3 ms ] story [ 49.1 ms ] threadAs usual it's probably nothing.
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).
Why do people say something was "hacked" every time a technical issues arises? Did something actually happen or is it just a bug somewhere?
Here's an "official" thread: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/gNv...
"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...
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.