It must be all that traffic from the new job search feature they introduced? Don’t you think? Actually it seems they might have deleted the blog themselves and someone else claimed it. Google team is doing a mea culpa on the blog which has been restored.
The Google Blog was unavailable for a short time tonight. We quickly learned from our initial investigation that there was no systemwide vulnerability for Blogger. We’ll let you know more about what did happen once we finish looking into it. Update: We’ve determined the cause of tonight’s outage. The blog was mistakenly deleted by us (d’oh!) which allowed the blog address to be temporarily claimed by another user. This was not a hack, and nobody guessed our password. Our bad.
It is back up now. But Blogspot does have a bit of weird behaviour with its frontend app server.
Sometimes blogs without www prefix return a 404 while it shows the blog perfectly well with the www prefix.
Meanwhile, your first entry on the main blog on the 404 has gone 404 now. Bring out the tinfoils 🙂
Just saw on Digg that the Google Blog was hacked. Didn’t read too much into it, but thought it might be of some use.
-Jason L. Baptiste
i was originally going to post this to the mainsite, but wasn’t sure what was going on – and decided to play it safe. i think it was prudent since this happened late at night. anyway the so called hacker is a bit of a poser according to some digg articles.