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Friday, July 22, 2011

Google+ Hit with Spam Bug

The Google+ Social networking site malfunctioned this weekend, spamming its users with repeated notifications via e-mail.

Google+, which is being beta tested with a limited number of users, ran out of disk space on Saturday, causing the glitch, according to Vic Gundotra, a Google senior vice president of engineering.

"Please accept our apologies for the spam we caused this afternoon. For about 80 minutes we ran out of disk space on the service that keeps track of notifications. Hence our system continued to try sending notifications. Over, and over again.Yikes," he wrote in a Google+ post.


Google+ is the company's latest and most high-profile attempt to date to launch a social networking service that competes with Facebook, after a number of failed attempts throughout the years. 

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