A Gmail bug has resulted in thousands of unsolicited e-mails hitting up the Hotmail account of one David S. Peck of Fresno, California, according to a report from TechCrunch. TechCrunch suggests the glitch is possibly related to the outage that occurred earlier Friday.

The bug operated like this: a Google search for the word “Gmail” turns up a couple of links under the Gmail header, including one with the text “Email.” Clicking that link would pop up a Compose window with dsp559 at hotmail dot com pre-filled in the To: field; apparently, more than a few Gmail users YOLO’d and hit send.

Peck has been receiving the unsolicited e-mails since Thursday. He deleted the day’s bounty and woke up Friday with 1,900 more e-mails, he told TechCrunch. Peck contacted Hotmail for support, and as of Friday afternoon, the “Email” link on the Google results page leads to a 404.

Earlier in the day, both Gmail and Google+ went down for about two hours. Given Google+’s recent integration with YouTube, that meant YouTube users were unable to make comments on the site, as well.

Google are the epitome of the new, more subtle form of control. The old way, to control people by force, was rebelled against and beaten down. The new way is to control people by providing services that people basically cant be without. Everyone must have a phone, so therefore we all must carry around tracking devices whether we like it or not, and everybody needs a really good search engine, email account, maps and w/e, and google have the best of them.

If you have internet, chances are that google has your info. Their recent forcing of google+ through youtube made me finally crack and split off from them as much as possible, but most people would just tolerate it and sign up.