Your ChatGPT conversations may be visible in Google Search
Google is indexing shared ChatGPT links – exposing prompts, responses, and sensitive info you may have unknowingly made public.
Topic: Data breach
Exploit reveals how and why Google ranks content
Google exploit reveals insights into consensus scoring, query classifications, site quality scores and more.
Google apologizes to advertisers for major Shopping Ads glitch
Google is criticized for vague and delayed communication, leaving many advertisers demanding clearer explanations and impact reports.
Advertisers react to Google Reporting and Product Listing glitch
Concern raised among advertisers have been about data privacy, competitive intelligence, and Google's transparency in handling the situation
Google Ads hit by major reporting glitch, exposing competitor data
Competitors' sensitive information is being exposed to advertisers while key reporting tools and product management features are inaccessible.
How SEO moves forward with the Google Content Warehouse API leak
Addressing common questions, critiques and concerns following the massive Google Search leak and how your approach to SEO should change.
Unpacking Google’s massive search documentation leak
This breakdown unveils potential Google Search ranking factors, including details on PageRank variations, site authority metrics and more.
Google responds to leak: Documentation lacks context
Google won't comment on the specific elements in the document, in order to keep its ranking system safe and secure.
HUGE Google Search document leak reveals inner workings of ranking algorithm
The documents reveal how Google Search is using, or has used, clicks, links, content, entities, Chrome data and more for ranking.
How SEOs can detect and address user data leaks
Discover the hidden dangers of user data exposure and why SEOs play a crucial role in data safeguarding and privacy protection.
Yandex ‘leak’ reveals 1,922 search ranking factors
SEOs have already started analyzing Yandex's search ranking factors, which include PageRank and several other link-related factors
3 ways bots and fake users are killing your search efforts
SEO and PPC leaders are impacted by the Fake Web in ways that seriously hinder the effectiveness of search marketing.
In search of your most memorable moments; Monday’s daily brief
Plus, only YouTube and Reddit have seen much usage growth since 2019.
Why machine learning means proactive loyalty fraud prevention
Loyalty programs are big business for companies and a key target for fraudsters. Don't just wait for a hacker's attack before acting.
Ask.com exposing real-time user queries to the public
Ask.com left its server status Apache page open to the public, exposing private search data to the world.
Yahoo is using display ads to drive search traffic for competitive terms
Ads link directly to search results for terms across a number of competitive verticals.
New Search Engine Indexeus Exposes Hackers, Data Breaches
A new search engine called Indexeus sought to expose hackers and their exploits unless they “donated” $1 for every record that they wanted to conceal from public view. In response to the claim that this is extortion, Portuguese founder Jason Relinquo says the aim of Indexeus wasn’t blackmail but to expose security risks and data vulnerabilities. […]
Wikipedia Releases Search Data To Public But Pulls It After Privacy Concerns
Wikipedia announced they have decided to give away their search data to the public for free. Yea, they would just give away search data to anyone would wanted to download it. Shortly after they announced this, they decided to “temporarily taken down this data to make additional improvements to the anonymization protocol related to the […]
South Korea May Arrest Google Execs Over WiFi Data Collection
South Korean police are planning to file criminal charges against Google executives over the collection of personal data via unsecured wifi networks. According to IDG News/PCWorld, the country’s national police agency has determined that Google acted illegally when it gathered personal data as part of its Street View mapping service. A police official says they’re […]
Google Facing Privacy Fines In UK, Must Mark Street View Cars In Italy
In Italy the country’s privacy authorities are asking Google to more clearly mark Street View cars, as well as publicize their itineraries. According to Reuters: Under the regulator’s decision, Google has to publish three days in advance on its website, in local newspapers and on radio in which locality, including which area of a large […]
Google Appoints Privacy Director & Adds New Privacy Measures
Google has announced they have increased their privacy controls within Google to better secure user privacy. Google has done this in response to them collecting data over wifi via their street view cars. Google has added three broad changes to help secure private data going forward: (1) They appointed a director of privacy, Alma Whitten […]
If Future Employees Compromise Privacy, Don’t Expect Google To Tell The World
Earlier this week, news broke that a Google employee had been fired in July for accessing the private information of a few individuals without permission, in violation of Google’s policies. Isn’t that something Google should be reporting itself, I wondered? It makes sense to me, but don’t expect Google to do so. Google already reports […]
Google Fired Two Employees For Breaching Google User Privacy
Gawker wrote a story on how one Googler was fired for allegedly “stalking” and “spying” on a 15-year-old’s Gmail Chat conversations. Gawker said the “stalking” was not “sexual” in nature but it was still a breach of privacy. Later, Google confirmed that this Googler was dismissed due to “breaking internal privacy policies.” Google later admitted […]
Google Backs Down, Will Give Street View Data To Privacy Officials
Google is backtracking on its previous refusal to hand over private data collected in April by its Street View cars to several European governments. The Financial Times reports that Google will initially give the intercepted data to officials in Germany, France, Spain, and Italy sometime within the next two days. The Financial Times quotes Google […]
Sergey Brin On Google’s Wifi Data Collection: “We Screwed Up”
At a press briefing at the Google I/O developers conference today, Google cofounder Sergey Brin didn’t mince words about his company’s accidental collection of wifi data. “We screwed up,” he said. He was asked about the incident, where last week Google admitted it accidentally gathered data from private wifi networks around the world over the […]
After The Hack, Should I Still Trust Google & The Cloud With My Data?
Over the past year, I’ve moved more and more of my data over to the cloud — in particular, to being stored with Google. I’m rethinking that, in the wake of Google’s statement that it was the target of a sophisticated hacking attack. Further, I’m wondering if this entire episode — GoogleHack, for want of […]
Bad Directions: Google Maps Sends Local Listing Reports To Wrong Business Owners
Starting last night, Google began sending out the monthly (or so) Google Local Business Center updates. The updates go out via email and contain analytical information about how many times a listing was viewed, clicked on, and other miscellaneous analytics. The analytics are a summary of what they would see in their Google LBC analytics […]
Google Docs Bug Shares Your Documents Without Permission
Over the weekend a confirmed Google Docs bug may have shared your private Google Documents with others, without your permission. Google said this “affected less than 0.05% of all documents.” What exactly happened? “The inadvertent sharing was limited to people with whom the document owner, or a collaborator with sharing rights, had previously shared a […]
Gmail User Gains Access To 30 Other Gmail Accounts Due To ISP Caching Glitch
Google says ISP glitch exposes Gmail data in Kuwait from News.com has confirmed reports that a Gmail user in Kuwait has inadvertently accessed about 30 Gmail accounts that were not his. Supposedly, he also accessed an email that had “keycodes for some embassy gate.” Whose fault is this? Not Google! A Kuwaiti ISP was having […]
Google Presentations Security Issue Leaked Email Addresses
Nathan Weinberg reports that Google fixed a security issue with the new Google Presentations, which leaked user email addresses to the public. What happened was that when webmasters tried to embed presentations into their web pages, it would then log people into Google Talk via their Google Account. After they logged in, to view the […]
Google Takes Action To ‘Strip’ Confidential Information From Google Blacklist
Vnunet reports that Google has admitted to the leak of passwords via the Google Blacklist. But Google has also issued a statement saying that they “procedures have been put in place to strip login information from future submissions.” As I noted yesterday, this is not the first time confidential information has been found in Google’s […]
Google’s Blacklist Of Phishing Sites Contained Bank Information & More Confidential Details
Google Blacklist Contained Confidential Information at Techcrunch reports that Google’s phishing blacklist, which is publicly available for anyone to see, had confidential information enclosed. Such information included “usernames and passwords of individuals, including credentials for accounts at banks and other financial institutions.” Google has quietly removed the information that may put users at risk, but […]