Posts Tagged ‘Google’
What is 1e100.net?
So you are probably reading this because you are not sure what 1e100.net is or why you are being redirected via it when performing Google searches or using products such as youtube etc. Perform a SiteWhois lookup 1e100.net is owned by Google and has been in use since October 2009, if you perform a whois on the domain you can see it’s registration details linked back to Google. Perform an…
And then there was Google Instant!
If you have visited the Google.co.uk homepage (Yes, that’s Google UK) recently – since about the 8th of September 2010 then you would have noticed a new search feature Google is pushing called Google Instant. Now what is so nice about Google Instant? It is an ajax type search application that now searches using keyword ghosting and searches and returns results as you type to populate the normal search results…
What is __utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmz ?
__utma, __utmb, __utmc and __utmz are 4 cookies created by Google Analytics, for a detailed and very informative read, go here and here.
Google Redirect Virus Fix!
Now this is an annoying one. You go to any of google’s sites including any site that has google-analytics.com javascript included in it’s body and BOOM! ..either you get redirected to a bullshit search page you didn’t ask to go to or the browser shows a blank white screen while apparently analytics loads.. It turns out this is actually a virus that infects routers! There are “short-lived-ways” to solve this…
Chromium Operating System
As many of you may know, Chromium is an opensource project that is basically an Operating System built on Linux and is just like working in Google’s Chrome web browser. I decided to take a look at it today and went and downloaded the developer sneak release. It came all boxed up in a 764,994KB (764MB) VMDK Virtual Machine Harddisk file. When it finished downloading I was sadly quite excited…
Google Background Image
Google now allows you to add a background image to the google homepage to apparently make it more, like, home.. hmmmm Just by clicking the button at the bottom left hand corner it allows you to either upload an image or select an image from google. For indepth instructions as per Google, check this page out: http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=180720&hl=en
Weird Pagination on a Google Page
Not sure how long this one will last, but for now: Go to: http://www.google.co.za/search?q=MFI/06/ASA-778658&hl=en&start=0&sa=N If you scroll to the bottom, there are 4 pages (pagination), press Next, now there are only 2, WEIRD HUH!
127.0.0.1:4664 and Google Desktop Search
Recently I checked my website stats and saw I had a few hits from “127.0.0.1:4664″ and wondered to myself, what the heck is that? Am I looking at my own site from a localhost? Why am I getting backlinks from my local computer to my site. After searching around a bit I found out that port 4664 is used by Google Desktop Search and when I typed in certain queries…
Close/Delete Google Checkout Account
I have used Google Checkout to receive payments in the past and have had problems with some clients not paying and blaming it on Google Checkout that the money did not go through (like the guys over at Peartree DMS). I decided that this account was not worth the trouble anymore and wanted to close my account. I looked online everywhere and couldn’t find where to close the account –…
ak script
www.andrewodendaal.com/ak/ ran a webscan today returning results of online sites and has retrieved a list of a few thousand items every half hour. The test will run until a softcap is reached at 52K.
Reported Attack Site!
What the heck is that? So you’ve just visited a website using Mozilla Firefox and this message has popped up telling you that the site looks suspicious. Usually the site has been marked as a possible virus containing website and Firefox will show you this message attempting to protect itself against Malware, Spyware or other forms of Viruses. There are occasions when this is mearly a warning and not to…
