Google glitch

Actually, it wasn't just Google, but just having Google down can affect a lot of family and corporate Net researchers. If you tried to do a search and couldn't at Google, AltaVista, Lycos, and possibly Yahoo today, it's because they were attacked by a worm, CNET reported. In a separate article, CNET said that this week's version of the MyDoom worm, working on home and business PCs that had been infected by it, slowed or knocked out those particular search engines just by using them to search for more email addresses. It uses (or "harvests") these addresses to send spam or to launch denial-of-service attacks on major Web sites and corporate computer networks. One infected computer can do thousands of search queries, so hundreds or thousands of them can really slow search engines down.