Why does fivethirtyeight.com now take me to Google?

[NYC_SKP]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=7263516&mesg_id=7263516

Some of us are taken to Google, others say it works fine.

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/

:shrug:

[ccharles000]

1. It took me to Google.

[billyoc]

2. I see that it's a blogger-wide issue.

[NYC_SKP]

3. What would be some possible reasons for that, billyoc? nt

[billyoc]

6. I heard that it got mentioned on Countdown tonight.

It may have just been overwhelmed with traffic and they locked it on purpose, the colocation admins may have insisted, something like that.

Or they may simply not have paid the rent. :)

[Drunken Irishman]

7. I just had someone try it who has never visited before and it worked fine.

[BlooInBloo]

12. Bullshit.

[billyoc]

18. Let's see yours:

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Bellevue, WA 98007
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[Stardust]

4. HEY! It googled me, too! Maybe because Nate Silver was on Rachel Maddow tonight!

Payback Time from the freakazoids. :tinfoilhat:

[BlooInBloo]

5. No, it DOES work fine for others.

[Shine]

8. Want some tin foil now?

:evilgrin:

[BlooInBloo]

9. I'm good, thanks.

[NYC_SKP]

10. I'm never without my tinfoil!

:tinfoilhat:

[NYC_SKP]

11. I did it, I broke the Internet.

Fuck, I'm in trouble!

[BlooInBloo]

14. You and your pron!

:rofl:

[NYC_SKP]

15. But they were popups, honest!

Or a virus, yeah, I think it's a virus!

[TexasObserver]

13. got google, three times, never got the site

[Former Chicagoan]

16. I used Verizon and got Google, used AT&T aircard and got 538

Let's try to figure it out -- would everyone please note who their ISP is when they identify whether they got blocked or got through?

I tried to report it to Verizon but there is no way to do so -- their forms won't allow it and there are no real people employed there anymore (or maybe they are all in India).

[NYC_SKP]

19. I think its a traffic issue, Google operated site that defaults to Google when

the traffic jams up.

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[BlooInBloo]

17. IT'S A BLOGGER-WIDE ISSUE.;

It finally got to me, too. :(

Try, for additional Blogger example, http://www.eschatonblog.com/

[billyoc]

20. whoah. cool.

How weird is that. What causes it?

[struggle4progress]

21. Worked fine for me. I'm certainly not seeing caches because (1) I cleaned out all my caches

earlier today and (2) to my best recollection, I never heard of www.fivethirtyeight.com/ before now. Since I spent most of the day on machine maintenance, and since my memory isn't a total wreck, it's unlikely that I visited the site after emptying all my caches

[man4allcats]

22. If I click

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/ it brings up Google, but if I use http://www.538.com it works fine.

[blogslut]

25. 538.com

Isn't the same site. It's one of those type-in fake search engine deals

[man4allcats]

27. Oops!

n/t

[highprincipleswork]

23. Taking me to Google

Don't dig this at all. All sites mentioned "take me to google".

While that's an interesting name for a song, I don't like the experience.

[blogslut]

24. That's wierd

As far as I know, I don't have any spyware baddies on my machine.

So, this is an issue with sites that are paying for Blogger hosting?

Fucking Google.

[blogslut]

26. Yep, it's a Blogger.com hosting issue

Their boards are buzzing about it:

http://groups.google.com/group/blogger-help/topics

[anigbrowl]

28. Blogger system is broken

seems to be awash with malware spammers right now. Probably got exploited.

[Make7]

29. Their website is hosted by Google.

 

Server Data
IP Address: 	72.14.207.121      
IP Location:    California - Mountain View - Google Inc 
Response Code: 	200 
Domain Status: 	Registered And Active Website

http://whois.domaintools.com/fivethirtyeight.com

Perhaps their account only allows a certain amount of data transfers per month and they have reached their limit. Or perhaps there is an issue with the server hardware, or fivethirtyeight.com missed a payment...

Regardless, it is not unusually for a web hosting service to have a default page in the event of problems - in this case, a Google page.

-Make7

[Jamastiene]

30. Works fine for me.

I'm on Time Warner Roadrunner in NC(Broadband).