This time, however, it’s a rather important one. No, not Escaton, Alliance of the Anonymous, or even Chewbaccas blog (although they should totally delete this posers)… No, Google deleted…the Google Blog:

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.

Maybe we should be a little less afraid of them being our oppressive overlords now.

status: published
lastmod: '2006-12-06T03:57:50.000Z'
author: John Stansbury
cms: wordpress
custom:
  podPressPostSpecific: 'a:6:{s:15:"itunes:subtitle";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:14:"itunes:summary";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:15:"itunes:keywords";s:17:"##WordPressCats##";s:13:"itunes:author";s:10:"##Global##";s:15:"itunes:explicit";s:7:"Default";s:12:"itunes:block";s:7:"Default";}'
  _utw_tags_0: 'a:2:{i:0;O:8:"stdClass":1:{s:3:"tag";s:4:"blog";}i:1;O:8:"stdClass":1:{s:3:"tag";s:6:"google";}}'
  similarterms: blog google tonight time blogger deleted mistakenly allowed address outage deletes determined account temporarily overlords hack guessed password oppressive update