How Googlebot was able to wipe out an entire database.

Originally published on thedailywtf.com by  on 2006-03-28.

Reposting as I thought this was a fairly good issue that any web developer can get into.

Josh Breckman worked for a company that landed a contract to develop a content management system for a fairly large government website. Much of the project involved developing a content management system so that employees would be able to build and maintain the ever-changing content of their site.

Because they already had an existing website with a lot of content, the customer wanted to take the opportunity to reorganize and upload all the content into the new site Continue reading