Disabling The Google Toolbar Doesn’t Stop Google From Tracking You
Jan 26, 2010 at 9:35am ET by Barry Schwartz
Ben Edelman uncovered evidence that even if you disable the Google Toolbar, Google may still be tracking your web browsing behavior.
Edelman documents how he disabled the Google Toolbar within the preference, then visited a web page and captured how Google was sending browsing data from the toolbar to Google's servers. Edelman first clicked the "X" icon at the top left of the Google Toolbar. Then he selected "Disable Google Toolbar only for this window," and clicked "okay." While in the same window, requested the Whitehouse.gov site. He noticed that his network monitor showing that th [...]
Filed in: Google: Security, Google: Toolbar, Legal: Privacy, Legal: Security
Google’s China Gambit: Day Two Reaction
Jan 13, 2010 at 10:52am ET by Greg Sterling
Google's decision to potentially pull out of China if it cannot operate without censorship is a remarkable story. The statement was made after Google discovered a "highly sophisticated and targeted attack" on GMail. Google didn't say the Chinese government was behind the attacks but that's the clear implication. The attacks involved more than just Google apparently. Adobe has publicly confirmed it was similarly attacked.
Google's public statements and decision are being applauded, dissected and heavily tweeted within and outside China. Discussion of the decision dominates Techmeme, and is a [...]
Filed in: Google: Business Issues, Google: General, Google: Outside US, Google: Security, Google: Web Search, Top News
Google Just Says No To China: Ending Censorship, Due To Gmail Attack
Jan 12, 2010 at 6:00pm ET by Danny Sullivan
Google has revealed that the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists were targeted last December in a hacking attempt. That, along with other issues, has convinced the company that it will no longer censor results China as the Chinese government wishes.
In particular, Google has willingly allowed self-censored its search results since January 27, 2006, on its Google China service. The screenshot above show an example of this, where a search for tiananmen on Google China (on the left) doesn't bring up protest pictures as you get when searching for the same thing on Google's main [...]
Filed in: Features: Analysis, Google: Business Issues, Google: Critics, Google: Gmail, Google: Security, Legal: Censorship, Search Engines: China Search Engines, Top News
Guess What? Google Doodles Drive Tons Of Queries & Spammers Know It
Dec 16, 2009 at 9:50am ET by Barry Schwartz
CNet News reports that spammers and scammers are exploiting Google Doodles. As you can imagine, there are many people who click on the Google Doodle from the Google home page. Clicking on the logo will trigger a search result in Google. If you look at Google Hot Trends for yesterday, you will see that the number 8 query on that list was ll zamenhof. It was pretty popular, and spammers and scammers of course took notice.
CNet reported that "Dave Michmerhuizen, a research scientist at Barracuda Networks, found 31 poisoned sites among the first 100 results, 27 of them in the first 50 sites [...]
Filed in: Google: Logos, Google: SEO, Google: Security, Google: Web Search, SEO: Spamming
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
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