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China activist: Google Gives Us Hope

by certifiedbug on February 10, 2010

in News

Ai Weiwei

Most discouraging to those of us who are fighting for increased freedom is the tendency for developed nations to lower the bar to please China. They make excuses not to concern themselves with violations of human rights. To espouse universal values and then blind oneself to China’s active hostility to those values is irresponsible and naïve.

When American officials come to China with a pretty smile and the soft tone of a so-called “friendly gesture,” this only tells us how fragile and vulnerable these moral standards can be. It makes the people still in the struggle feel disappointed.

Wall Street Journal Article

Certifiedbug: January 13, 2010. Google takes step for Human Rights

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Google phasing out support for old browsers

by certifiedbug on January 30, 2010

in Browser

​The web has evolved in the last ten years, from simple text pages to rich, interactive applications including video and voice. Unfortunately, very old browsers cannot run many of these new features effectively. So to help ensure your business can use the latest, most advanced web apps, we encourage you to update your browsers as soon as possible. There are many choices:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0+

Mozilla Firefox 3.0+

Google Chrome 4.0+

Safari 3.0+

Many other companies have already stopped supporting older browsers like Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers. We’re also going to begin phasing out our support, starting with Google Docs and Google Sites. As a result you may find that from March 1 key functionality within these products — as well as new Docs and Sites features — won’t work properly in older browsers.

Modern browsers for modern applications

Opera is also an alternate browser choice.

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Google shows “Tank Man”

January 14, 2010

Early morning articles report that the censored photo of the Chinese “Tank Man”, who boldly stood in front of a line of tanks during the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests crackdown, was available on Google’s Chinese website, Google.cn, hours after Google threatened to defy Chinese Internet censors. http://certifiedbug.com/blog/2010/01/13/google-takes-step-for-human-rights/
A Google.cn search showed this drop down [...]

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Google Click Fraud-Advertisers Overpay

January 13, 2010

Benjamin Edelman
January 12, 2010
I’ve repeatedly reported improper placements of Google ads. In most of my write-ups, the impropriety occurs in ad placement — Google PPC ads shown in spyware popups, in typosquatting sites or in improperly-installed and/or deceptive toolbars. This article is different: Here, the impropriety includes a fake click — click fraud — charging [...]

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Google takes step for Human Rights

January 13, 2010

Google disclosed on their blog that they were hit with a targeted trojan aimed to gain access to Gmail accounts of Chinese human right activists.
We have taken the unusual step of sharing information about these attacks with a broad audience not just because of the security and human rights implications of what we have unearthed, [...]

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Feed Demon Google Reader sync

September 24, 2009

FeedDemon’s on-line reader Newsgator has been discontinued.

New In FeedDemon 3.0!
* Google Reader sync – Use FeedDemon at home, at your office, or anywhere you go and keep your feeds, tags and shared items synched between locations.
If you don’t have a license this is the kind of ad you will see [...]

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Google Chrome OS

July 8, 2009

Google has announced the development of Google Chrome OS on their official Blog.
Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.
And [...]

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Edelman:Google and its partners inflate advertisers’ conversion rates

May 13, 2009

Respected Spyware Researcher Ben Edelman gives four examples:
WhenU – adware
SmileyCentral – toolbar
Typosquatting
Chrome – browser suggestions
Detailed article:
How Google and Its Partners Inflate Measured Conversion Rates and Increase Advertisers’ Costs
http://certifiedbug.com/blog/tag/edelman/

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Your site is dangerous Google glitch

January 31, 2009

The bug was fixed within the hour but quite a few people did freak. Oddly enough my site went down around the same time, maybe my host thought it was true.
From Stopbadware.
Google glitch causes confusion
This morning, an apparent glitch at Google caused nearly every [update 11:44 am] search listing to carry the [...]

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Poisoned Search Queries at Google Video

January 28, 2009

Independent security consultant Dancho Danchev reports that a blackhat SEO-ers group is targeting Google Video, poisoning approximately 400,000 search queries so far.
Traffic is redirected to a fake flash player in order to trick users into visiting a bogus and malware serving adult web site.
ZDnet: Google Video search results poisoned to serve malware
Blog: Poisoned Search Queries [...]

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