Google search bug floods random man's Hotmail account with 10,000 emails a day

[Gunzkewl]

 

Starting yesterday afternoon, the Hotmail account of California resident David Peck suddenly became a lot more popular. It's the result of a bug in Google search, which The Verge was able to reproduce. Search for "gmail" and the first result has a link with a tagline about Gmail's 10GB of storage and, ironically, lack of spam. Clicking that link causes a new window to pop up — a Gmail box for composing a new email — with Peck's handle already filled in on the address line.

 

"I’ve been getting thousands of no-subject, blank emails. 500 of them come every hour, I can’t stop them," . "They’re coming so fast, I want to stop them. I deleted everything last night and woke up this morning and had 1,900 new emails" he says. "Only two of them were emails I cared about."

 

Google spokesperson emailed to say that: "Due to a technical glitch, some email addresses on public webpages appeared too prominently in search results. We’ve fixed the issue and are sorry for any inconvenience caused."

 

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/24/5342486/google-search-bug-floods-random-mans-hotmail-account-with-10000

 

What a coincidence it's a Hotmail account haha.    Poor guy that must suck.

[SAV1OUR]

well at least he's getting emails unlike me *forever alone* 

[AlwaysFSX]

well at least he's getting emails unlike me *forever alone* 

*pats*

[SAV1OUR]

*pats*

*cries 1 sad tear* thanks buddy 

[Gunzkewl]

well at least he's getting emails unlike me *forever alone* 

Not even the NEW ONLINE PHARMACY [FREE PILLS] email selling you Viagra and "Viagra Professional" ??

[SAV1OUR]

Not even the NEW ONLINE PHARMACY [FREE PILLS] email selling you Viagra and "Viagra Professional" ??

spam filters OP  

[TechSage]

I have 30K emails, that's what you get when you play farmville and your facebook is linked to your email

[IdeaStormer]

well at least he's getting emails unlike me *forever alone* 

 

Geeze, someday you'll learn those empty e-mail days were so nice, especially when you get e-mails from people you don't want e-mails from and I'm no talking spam but old known annoyers who still haven't gotten the message that if they don't recieve an e-mail from me in over 10 years its probably because I don't want to e-mail them.

[mgsstar]

That sucks that he had to receive that much spam. Wonder if Google will gift him something to make up for this glitch.