Yes, you can ignore Google's phony malware warning

I'll bet Google doesn't pull this shit on liberal sites.

Many of you who've visited the blog recently have seen an ominous warning.

No, I'm not some evil malware site. I might infect your brain with common sense, but I won't infect your PC with viruses or trojans or worms or herpes simplex ten.

I had a Blogarama badge. Which has sat happily on my sidebar since 2007. They're a blog directory. I'm listed in it. Pretty benign.

Until one day, unbeknownst to me Google decided Blogarama is evil. Maybe they let someone download one of Viacom's copyrighted movies once. Or something.

So Google goes and tags me as evil just for linking to them. And then says, well we told Blogarama, what's your beef?

Thanks, assholes. Do you tag yourselves? 'Cause you jerks still link to Blogarama too in your search results. Funny how those links don't bring up the Red Warning Screen Of Doom instead of Google.com!

Have I mentioned recently how much I hate Google?

A big hat-tip to Hugh at The Laughing Conservative for giving me a heads-up on the Don't Be Evil crew's ridiculously silly blocking of my blog. They hosed Chicago News Bench too. He notes that probably thousands of blogs may be affected by Google's heavy-handed smear campaign. Yippee Kai Ay.

UPDATE 06 Apr 2012 09:56:
Linked in Live at Five at The Other McCain. Thanks Wombat-socho!

UPDATE 08 Apr 2012 13:21:
Also linked by Copious Gasser. Cool!

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