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I think I am reasonably techy. People come to me for tech advice all the time. Now if someone came up to me yesterday and said “Hey I can’t access Google” I would immediately conclude it as a network problem. Then the user would say “But I can access everything else! yahoo, apple.com, everything else works!” I wouldn’t believe him because of course how can Google go down?

So today I came home and wanted to google for some stuff. Hmm. Error. Tried gmail. Same error. Gcal. Same. Went to my Treo and hit google. Loads fine.

WTF?

The error in Safari is “Safari can’t open the page “http:///” because it could not connect to the server “”.

Camino and Firefox - “The URL is not valid and can’t be loaded.” (http://www.google.com - duh?)

Why oh why?!

As of right now I don’t know why. On my Thinkpad and wifey’s PowerBook -same. I think it’s the router but restarting Airport Express won’t work.

Seems that I am not alone but right now - I am very perplexed! Help?

Update - This thread says it could be due to the encryption used. I don’t see why this will affect access to google - changed my settings (open network no security) and nope still doesn’t work. Then another thread says Google may be actually blocking users? WTF.

And I notice that if I do a search “/www.google.com/” gets removed “http:/search?q=cannot+access+google+blocking&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8″

AUGH!