Peculiar Google bug shows your text messages in search results

guest · May 30, 2018

Peculiar Google bug shows your text messages in search results
May 30, 2018
https://betanews.com/2018/05/30/google-sms-glitch/

At the moment it seems that the bug only affects Android users, with the iOS version of the Google app appearing to be functioning normally. If you get strange results if you try to visit the1975..com or search for "zela viagens", you might want to change your app permissions as a precaution.

The "very odd glitch" was discovered by a Reddit user, Krizastro, who shared details of what happened when trying to visit the website of the band The 1975. Slip an extra period into the URL and rather than seeing an error message or the site, a list of text messages is displayed instead.
Krizastro explains: [...]
While the behavior is a little strange, it's something that you can already do on purpose: just tell Google to "show me my text messages". If you are concerned, however, it is dependent on app permissions, which you can change as Phone Arena points out: [...]

Google has not yet said anything about what is going on, or what it is doing about the bug.
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ronjor · Jun 1, 2018

Google explains 'weird' 1975 text message bug

BBC
Google told the BBC it was a "language detection bug" that was being fixed.
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