Odd little error message
 

I was going to look up something on youtube, and I received this rather unusual error message when it loaded:
Not the average error message you'd get from a website. :P
Any thoughts?

Yeah, I've seen these errors from YouTube before. Rather than simply show the error details like many sites do, YouTube encodes them as a big blob of junk. Hackers can often gain insight into how a site works by studying failure details, so encoding them like this is probably self-defense.

Google use a custom server architecture which is not publicly available, it would make sense not to reveal details - while 99% of the time, an unencoded message would still be seen by someone who has no idea of the significance, the other 1% of the time would be giving out information about their systems' design.

On the other hand, the 'if you see them...' suggests to me that it might just be a total red herring, and any actual reporting is one internally and autonomously.