14 DAY TRIAL // Wouldn't it be shameful for a company the magnitude of Google to be forced to admit that somebody stole its Domain Name System (its most basic task is to translate hostnames to IP addresses, in case you didn't know that)? Yes it would, don't even try to think about another answer, because it's just no point. Yet that's what it seems to have happened last night in India, where typing Google.com would redirect users to SoGoSearch, as the screenshot on the left points out.
It's the second time this has happened and it really is the same story, in 2005 reports also flew in about this following the very same pattern and redirecting to the very same site.
Looking back at what happened back then seems possible, but I doubt it. The SoGoSearch has its website com.net and it's a wild card match, so the redirection to the same page is explainable but that's about it. The reason google.com couldn't be resolved is still a mystery. Back in 2005, David Kane of Google admitted that it was a DNS issue, but he wouldn't say anything more on the matter, just that he had bounced the screenshot he received as proof to the tech department. Now, there's nobody that would give any insight on the matter, so it's pretty much the same thing.
And on a related matter, the crisis back then came with some Gmail downtime and I am currently experiencing difficulties checking my mail on the Google service. It's an extremely long shot because the problem showed up, as I said, in India and I am in Europe (and since Her Majesty gave up the Peninsula, the two haven't been as close as they were before), but hey? I'm willing to listen to any reason for the discontinuous usage of my beloved service.