Gmail may have a serious security vulnerability that can result in the leaking of sensitive private information randomly to people you don’t know, haven’t contacted, and have nothing to do with.
It would seem that between the way Gmail saves and retrieves sessions, existing sessions are authenticated, and views are cached there are one or more [...]
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Possible Severe Gmail Security Vulnerability (Updated)
Published by June 23rd, 2008 in Google, Hacking, Privacy, Security 8 CommentsMaking Gmail a More Welcoming Experience
Published by May 19th, 2008 in Design, Google, Reviews, Software 1 CommentIt used to be that when you opened your Gmail account you would see a bland, blank page with the text “Loading…” in the upper-right corner of the screen, as you waited for your browser to download the Gmail scripts and to make contact with the mail server to download the list of messages and [...]
Bloggers: Boycott Pay-Per-Action!!
Published by March 21st, 2007 in Blogosphere, Corporate Talk, Google 2 CommentsIf you’re a blogger or a small-site webmaster, get ready to boycott Google’s new Pay-Per-Action program. Why? Because you’ll never get as much money as you do right now with AdSense & Co.
Google calls Pay-Per-Action the “complement to AdWords,” but in reality, Pay-Per-Action is an AdWords/AdSense replacement. Look at it from Google’s point of view: [...]
Whatever Happened to MSN's “AdSense” Anyway?
Published by December 14th, 2006 in Corporate Talk, Google, Microsoft, Windows, Yahoo! 5 CommentsBack when Yahoo! first announced their plans for a pay-per-click advertising program to compete with Google’s highly-successful AdSense program, Microsoft also expressed interest in the field, and had decided to do likewise following the successful re-launch of its MSN Ads program. MSN Ads is basically AdWords - context-based pay-per-click ad campaigns directed at advertisers, not [...]
Does Net-non-Neutrality Already Exist?
Published by December 8th, 2006 in Blogosphere, Corporate Talk, Google, Privacy, SEO, Yahoo! 5 CommentsNet-Neutrality is without a doubt the biggest techno-political debate of the year. The entire issue has spun out of control since mid-2006, and here on the eve of 2007 it has yet to be resolved. The only question is, has net-neutrality already been destroyed and hacked-to-pieces to a greater extent than anyone thought already existed?
Earlier [...]
SearchMash: Google Reborn
Published by December 2nd, 2006 in Google, Microsoft, Programming, Reviews, Software 27 CommentsMove over Google, there’s a new search engine in town! What’s that? SearchMash is Google? Never mind then, scratch that…
It doesn’t make a difference really, stop going to Google.com because that’s not the place to get answers nowadays. SearchMash is, both literally and figuratively speaking, the new Google.
It’s quite a challenge really: how [...]
Everyone’s favorite search-engine/social-networking multi-billion dollar corporation is at it again. Following the addition of several new features to the Gmail platform earlier this week, Google has also revamped certain portions of its language tools – in beta of course. It’s not available for all languages, nor is it in a place where most casual users [...]
So YouTube is gone. Google “snapped it up” as everyone is calling one of Google’s biggest all-stock buy-outs to date. It wouldn’t surprise us if 2006 became known as the “Year of the Mergers” with all of the big corporate buy-outs, merges, and transfers. But as always, yesterday’s today’s news makes people ask “What next?”
If [...]
It has been a year and four months since the conclusion of the famed “seraphim proudleduck” SEO competition for Google…. And you would be surprised to see the outcome.
Either the Google engine has become better and found new back-links to sites that didn’t win, or this competition never ended but no one knew.
Either way, an [...]
Google vs. MSN: What to Expect..
Published by December 25th, 2005 in Corporate Talk, Google, Microsoft, Reviews 1 CommentEveryone has heard about the raging war between MSN and Google, and everyone is fighting to get their opinion about which is better in.. What most do not realize is that MSN and Google both (yes, Google too!) have their shortcomings..
At the moment neither is the “ultimate search engine” that their makers would like [...]
