"Earlier this week, we reported a glitch in Google Search, where clicking on a link after a search for Gmail listed someone’s email address, complete in a window ready to send them email. With today’s Gmail outage, that error — never fixed — has resulted in at least one person getting thousands of unwanted emails." http://searchengineland.com/google-search-error-gmail-mistak...

In 2004 user "Lonely" on the Movie Codec Forums posted a message with the title: "I am lonely will anyone speak to me.". Within days this thread became the number one result in Google for "I am lonely". 10 years later this thread has amassed over 20.000 replies. All from people who felt lonely and typed their mental state into Google. http://lounge.moviecodec.com/on-topic/i-am-lonely-will-anyon...

A Dutch politician responsible for investigating failed ICT government projects took to Twitter to deride Microsoft's support desk for calling him 10+ times a day from India. "Dear user, we will never call you and ask you for passwords. This was a criminal phishing attempt." https://twitter.com/Juliedewidt/status/574887734608805888

Wolfenstein 3D had an easter egg in a secret room which said: "Call Apogee. Say Aardwolf". Hackers found these rooms through reverse-engineering so the entire easter egg phone campaign was scratched. This one Easter Egg somehow remained in the final product and for many years Apogee got these "Aardwolf"-calls. http://static.rookiemag.com/2013/03/1362676256wolfensteinpic...