How To Avoid Getting Your Search Rankings Trashed By Malware
Sep 4, 2009 at 5:25pm ET by Jonathan Hochman
As if SEOs don’t have enough things to worry about already, add malware to the list. Why does malware matter to SEOs? If the site you are working on gets infected, its search traffic will plummet. Search engines attempt to remove infected pages from their search results, or they label them with an ominous warning, such as This site may damage your computer.
Back in 2008 Google reported that malware infected pages had increased to more than 1% of all search results. Google posted a malware statistics update last week. Malware infections have more than doubled since April 2009. Search res [...]
Filed in: Google: Security, How To: SEO, Search Features: Safety
Google’s Working On New File System
Aug 12, 2009 at 9:09am ET by Barry Schwartz
We often don't think about the core file system and servers that power Google's properties, from Search and Gmail to YouTube and Wave, but Google does. The Register reports that after ten years with the original Google File System, GFS for short, Google is working on a version two to replace it. The Google File System is different from the underlining Caffeine infrastructure update, as I understand it, Caffeine runs on top of the Google File System, like you run Microsoft Word on Windows.
The original GFS wasn't built to handle applications such as Gmail or YouTube, but that is exactly wh [...]
Filed in: Google: Business Issues, Google: General, Google: Security, Top News
The Bogus Google Give-Away
Jun 27, 2009 at 2:21pm ET by Danny Sullivan
Here's a new one on me. I just got an email telling me that I've won nearly $1 million from a "drawing" randomly selected from those searching on Google. Suffice to say, it's a scam. I can assure you that Google's done no drawing like this. Add the spam to those about missing fortunes in Nigeria or government grants.
I did some looking around, and the Google scam seems relatively recent. Apparently there was a Google "anniversary" scam in April 2008. For this latest "give-away" one, I spotted talk of it from April of this year. But since this particular spam made it past the filters in Gmai [...]
Filed in: Google: Security
Russian Roulette: McAfee Details Web’s Riskiest Search Terms
Jun 9, 2009 at 3:05pm ET by Matt McGee
Somewhere online right now there's a music fan who's big on free downloads, likes Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" but doesn't know the lyrics, is looking for free ringtones, uses MySpace, likes to play solitaire and wants the latest game cheats. Like many of us, s/he uses a search engine to find all of these things.
This person may as well be playing Russian roulette.
In a recent report (PDF), online security company McAfee says those are some of the most dangerous search terms on the web.
That's just a sample of the report's list of the 50 riskiest search terms in the U.S. "Maximum R [...]
Filed in: Ask: Web Search, Google: Security, Google: Web Search, Microsoft: Bing, SEO: Spamming, Stats: General, Top News, Yahoo: Search
Hackers Take Control Of Google Morocco For Several Hours
May 11, 2009 at 8:46am ET by Barry Schwartz
TechCrunch reported that Google Morocco was taken over by hackers for several hours.
The reports say that the hackers gained access to Google's domain name through the country's registrar, NIC.ma. The DNS information was then changed to point to a different server until Google regained access and pointed the domain name back to the Google servers.
Google has been hacked before, including domain names taken over and blogs hacked into and seized.
Postscript: Google said this was not a "hack" of the Google web site. Right, Google technically was not hacked into, but their domain name [...]
Filed in: Google: Security
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