Google had pie on its face after staffers accidentally deleted the company’s main official blog  and a user unaffiliated with Google temporarily took possession of the Web address.
This is just the latest in a recent string of embarrassing mistakes made by Google employees while handling company data.

While no big firm is immune to mistakes of this type, Google has experienced a string of them in recent weeks, and this is concerning, an analyst says. “It makes it look like Google can’t run its own shop and it lowers your confidence in the firm. That’s not good for Google’s valuation nor for its customers. Google needs to get its house in order,” says analyst Rob Enderle from Enderle Group.
What could we expect next!

Here was their response:

The Google Blog was unavailable for a short time tonight. We quickly learned from our initial investigation that there was no systemwide vulnerability for Blogger. We’ll let you know more about what did happen once we finish looking into it.

Update: We’ve determined the cause of tonight’s outage. The blog was mistakenly deleted by us (d’oh!) which allowed the blog address to be temporarily claimed by another user. This was not a hack, and nobody guessed our password. Our bad.

I still find it funny!

 http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/and-were-back.html