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Internet Fails After Man Googles “Google,” Triggering Infinite Loop
The Internet was inaccessible for several hours today after a man in Webster Groves, Missouri typed the string “Google” into the popular Google search engine, triggering a circular reference (or “infinite loop”).
The infinitely looping search sequence consumed much of the Internet’s bandwidth until a team of Google engineers was able to stop it early this afternoon by replacing the proprietary Google search algorithm with a list of abandoned websites known as “Yahoo.”
