It's official, hell has frozen over...

I have never seen this and I never thought I would... I fire up IE, and I head over to google, I get a yahoo page with search results for google.com. ****in IE, I must have entered the URL in the yahoo search bar it installed without my permission, I don't even check to see if this is the case, now I remember why I installed mozilla.. I fire up mozilla. I head over to google... request timed out. OK I get it.. my internet connection is messed up. I ping google, yup timed out.. I check my cable modem, it's connected, I check my router its connected, I ping my router, I ping my external router port, both fine, I do a tracert to google, all addresses but google respond.. what????!!! this does not compute.... for the first time in as long as I remember I try a site BESIDES google... it comes up... alright, now I'm REALLY confused, I try google again, it times out.. ok my internet service is failing and reconnecting really quickly (that really was my first thought, I'm serious, after this long I still hadn't even considered the possibility that google might actually be down, I'm still having a hard time believing it myself.) but its true, check out this screenshot... and I cannot stress this enough people... THIS IS NOT A FAKE!!!

You should check your hosts file and make sure there's no entry for google in it.

Well you suck then since I have no issue getting to both the one you list and Google.ca (the one I usually use). :D Could be localized to your area. Did you check Internet Traffic Report to see if something is down or that perhaps you might have a spyware or something else interfering?

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I get a yahoo page with search results for google.com.

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good one, I hadn't done that, but there is not an entry for google are you able to get to it?

Seems to be working just fine for me :).

I've tried in two different browsers and I'm unable to ping so I doubt its spyware, besides, its resolving the IP so I doubt its a dns issue, ping google and gimme the IP it gives you, I'll go directly to that

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but there is not an entry for google are you able to get to it?

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No specific entry. What you'd be looking for is a router that might be interferring (elimination/troubleshooting to figure out what the problem is). The hosts file and/or other checks for spyware/viruses might also be necessary.

only one entry in my hosts file:
127.0.0.1 localhost

tried google.ca too and no go

Reboot?? (all purpose solution to everything... :D)

Do you have another machine on the network to try this with (visit google)?

Visit Anonymizer and see if you can get to Google through their freebie page.

www.google.com = 216.239.57.147

www.google.ca = 216.239.63.104