Can someone else who is regularly checking SafeBrowsing Reports let me know if they have had problems accessing them lately?
For the last several days, I frequently find that they are taking an extra long time to load. Instead of a few seconds, I’m sitting here tapping my foot and counting to see how long it is taking … before I get fed up and move on to something else. I realize that we are spoiled with speedy responses, but this is ridiculous … at least on my machine.
Kaleh,
They do seem slow, but not incredibly slow.
Does it timeout? Or just load reaaallllyyy slow?
Let me know.
We can’t have you hampered by slow responding Google Diags. The world will go to H, E, double hockey sticks if you can’t help people quickly like you normally do.
Let me know if I can help in any way.
Thank you.
Thomas J. Raef
“We Watch Your Website – so you don’t have to!”
http://www.wewatchyourwebsite.com
traef@wewatchyourwebsite.com
Grrrrrrrrr … timed out this time at about 2 minutes. That was the most agonizingly slow two minutes I have every experienced! I just can’t sit still like that … waiting … waiting … waiting. And .. no … it isn’t every time … but it’s definitely a different pattern in the last several days than I have seen over a period of many months.
I’ve been having a bad time connecting as well. Yesterday (Sunday) it was continually timing out on me.
Is this a ploy by the cybercriminals to prevent those of us who try to help others from accessing the tools we need?
Hmmm.
Can someone from Google help us out here?
Thomas J. Raef
“We Watch Your Website – so you don’t have to!”
http://www.wewatchyourwebsite.com
traef@wewatchyourwebsite.com
Steve …have you been talking about the report available through the Stopbadware Clearinghouse? I haven’t been having problems with that one. However, I do see “Not Available” in all fields related to Domain information.
It’s the SafeBrowsing Diagnostic Report that I’ve been fussing about. I can’t get to the one from the following page (or for any other domain, right now):
http://www.google.com/interstitial?url=http://similarminds.com/forums/
http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://similarminds.com/forums/&hl=en
Ack!!! I read your first post wrong, and have assumed ever since that you meant the StopBadware page without giving it another thought.
What I think did it is that in the first post it says SafeBrowsing, which has the same capital letters as StopBadware, and looks similar to tired eyes! Ah, well.
However, all this time I’ve been using the Safe Browsing pages with no problems at all.
In IE8, I added it as a search provider using “Find more providers…” and using the “TEST” URL method, so that’s how I usually go there, or by highlighting the text on a page and choosing that as the accelerator to search with.
But when I click on a “This site may harm…” SERP and click through to the diagnostic page, I’ve not had any delays with that, either. Weird, but now I do understand why it’s so inconvenient!
SB for StopBadware and SafeBrowsing is an understandable “leap” to make. :-D
That’s one of the reasons people get so confused when they need to “Request a Review.”
Request a Review (RR)
Request Reconsideration (RR)
Can you imagine how difficult it is to find the right “link” in Google Webmaster Tools to use when people are using a translator, and “Request a Review” is buried and you have to know how to find it? Besides, they really think they need to have Google “reconsider” the fact that their site has been labeled as suspicious. They don’t realize it is two different processes and the terms have different shades of meaning.
I wonder if the Google SafeBrowsing Diagnostic reports might be distributed among different data centers, so which one you get depends on where you are, time of day, and system load. People say that’s how the index works.
I have a UPS, but the power lines run through tall trees in the neighborhood. I figure a direct hit might melt the UPS or blow it up, and am not sure how much protection it would be giving the PC while that was going on.
