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Google phasing out support for old browsers

January 30, 2010

​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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 in FeedDemon [...]

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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. [...]

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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: [...]

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Google’s new Gmail feature ‘Goggles’

October 8, 2008

Google aims to save you from sending an email you may regret in the morning. When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you’re really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click [...]

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