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Google shocked its users with a warning on Saturday. Those who used the search engine for one hour on Saturday evening were shocked to see a message – ‘This site may harm your computer’ – along with the search result.

In an explanation on its blog, the company blamed the mistake on human error. It apologised for any inconvenience caused to users and site owners whose pages were incorrectly labelled.

“This was clearly an error, and we are very sorry for the inconvenience caused to our users,” it said.

The company said it routinely flags any search results with that message if the site is known to install malicious software in the background or otherwise surreptitiously.

Google maintains a list of suspicious sites based on criteria developed with StopBadware.org, a nonprofit project headed by legal scholars at Harvard and Oxford universities who research consumer complaints.

The company periodically updates this list. And the error happened when it erroneously applied one of its periodic list updates in such a way that the warning would apply to all URLs.

“Fortunately, our on-call site reliability team found the problem quickly and reverted the file,” it said.

Today Google officially launches Chrome Web browser.

The new rival to Explorer and Firefox, now available for testing in Windows, makes up in exceptional speed for any minor shortcomings. And it’s got a nice array of features.

Google’s much-anticipated new Web browser, Chrome, arrived today. It’s streamlined, has some great new features and is very, very fast.

Chrome, the most talked-about new tech product is ready for download as a free download is officially called a beta test version.

Visit Google’s Chrome Browser site for more information.

Cuil, a technology company pioneering a new approach to search, unveils its innovative search offering, which combines the biggest Web index with content-based relevance methods, results organized by ideas, and complete user privacy. Cuil (www.Cuil.com) has indexed 120 billion Web pages, three times more than any other search engine.

Cuil (pronounced COOL) provides organized and relevant results based on Web page content analysis. The search engine goes beyond today’s search techniques of link analysis and traffic ranking to analyze the context of each page and the concepts behind each query. It then organizes similar search results into groups and sorts them by category.

Cuil gives users a richer display of results and offers organizing features, such as tabs to clarify subjects, images to identify topics and search refining suggestions to help guide users to the results they seek.

Summary of Cuil’s features:

• Biggest Internet search engine—Cuil has indexed 120 billion Web pages, 3x more than any other search engine
• Organized results—Cuil’s magazine-style layout separates results by subject and allows further search by concept or category
• Different results—Unlike other search engines, Cuil ranks results by the content on each page, not its popularity
• Complete privacy protection—Cuil does not keep any personally identifiable information on users or their search histories