The Google Enterprise Blog announced today that they launched a “new” product,
We’re excited to announce a new product designed specifically for businesses who want to put Google Maps on their website: Google Maps API Premier.
However, the “new” product turns out to be the very same product that they launched one and a half years ago, with the name “Google Maps for Enterprise“.
110% not cool.
Googleplex has a cafe called the No Name Café, which “focuses on healthy dishes and has delicious vegetarian and vegan selections.” Compare this photo from CNN and the photo above, and it seems like that Google has either changed the definition of “always” or “vegetarian”. (it appears to me that there’s a whole plate of hams)
Vegetarianism is the practice of a diet that excludes all animal flesh, including poultry, game, fish, shellfish or crustacea, and slaughter by-products. [Wikipedia]
[photo by Mayhem Chaos, used under a CC-license]
MustLive from WebSecurity.com.ua [Ukrainian] found a XSS vulnerability in Google Search Appliance, “an integrated hardware and software search appliance used by thousands of organizations to find and share information on corporate networks or websites” [Google Press Release, Sept. 2006], including the United Nations and MI5.
What does that mean? Well, it differs from site to site. Some sites may only be affected a little bit while important data (e.g. user info, password, etc…) of some other sites may end up in the wrong hands.
“Security is only there to keep the good guys good.” - Ronald van den Heetkamp
[via Ha.ckers.org]
I think Google can do better than that, “God of Psychic work”?
FYI, data from Google Trends shows that more people use “math” in search queries than “maths” and “mathematics”.
UPDATE: Google updated with a more acceptable definition. They should send me a t-shirt for that.
YouTube’s Help Center says when you set your YouTube videos private, they “will only be viewable by those select members” you gave permission to. Well, that’s just like Gmail saying “you’ll never need to delete another message” - no guarantee.
I don’t know whether Google’s considering this a feature or not, given that it’s been around for a really long time, but sure it isn’t something the privacy advocates on YouTube would like: you can download any private videos. :)
Now, the impatient you ask, “How can I download a private YouTube video then?” It’s so darn easy, just enter the video ID in the text field below and click on “Get Video”. Voilà! (finding a private video isn’t that easy though)
“Your privacy is an illusion“, love that. :D
I was double checking my answers for the math summer assignment last night and Google Suggest (Firefox) gave me a wrong (and totally nonsense) answer - “nannan i U.S. dollars” - for (5-pi)+(pi-5), while the result page returns the right answer: 0. (update: changed from 1, hehe)
Any idea what “nannan i U.S. dollars” might be?
UPDATE: It turns out that any expression with 0 as the answer will return “= nannan i U.S. dollars”. Thanks Ionut. :)
Several sites, including the Google Reader Groups, reported that Google Reader experienced some outage for hours since late last night till early this morning.
We should be happy once again as it’s working now.
Other than Google Reader is loading noticeably slow today, it didn’t really bother me much because I was sleeping at the time of outage. LOL. :)
RSnake of web security site Ha.ckers.org reports a serious XSS vulnerability in Google’s online office suite - Google Docs, that’s used by hundreds of thousands users and businesses.
Technically, one can inject malicious code into a document and trick Google Docs so whenever a logged-in Google user visits the Google Docs document, the user’s cookies will be sent and recorded on a non-Google server. Non-technically, some bad guys can have full access to your Google Docs documents without your knowledge and do whatever they want, if you step on a wrong site. I advise you to only visit trusted sites or install AdBlock Plus and configure to block the Google Docs’ site. I heard that it helps, can’t guarantee though.
Another vulnerability, not a direct threat to your Google data, but to the sites that uses Google’s Custom Search Engine. So just as above, some bad guys can steal your data (information) of whatever site you are on.
Also, security research Christian posted an ultimatum on the Sla.ckers’ forum regarding to multiple security holes in the YouTube system that can cause a privacy concern for YouTube users. He said that he would fully disclose the vulnerabilities in two weeks if Google doesn’t work with him to solve the issue. This is after he informed the Google security team, which handled his email carelessly.
None of these seem to be fixed as I am writing this, so keep an careful eye on the sites you are visiting. Good luck. :)
Flash developer Chad Upton noticed something unusual about the debugging comments in YouTube’s video player when watching a video on YouTube. While 99% of the debugging comments are “typical”, he said, a few irritating ones got caught by his sharp eyes.
I guess whoever wrote this probably didn’t get a piece of that $1.65 billion when Google acquired YouTube. Or maybe he was just tired, or sick of programming, or … Too much possibilities.
What you think?
[via InsideGoogle]
Wow, can you atleast explain what’s going on? That looks more like a spam comment than a post from an official Google blog.
Looks like Ms. Yao wrote that post in a hurry.
I don’t know the exact number of how many videos Google Video indexed, but I think it’s somewhere between 70 to 80 million videos*. Hey, even Google can’t tell for sure: about 71,268,336, if you are sorting the videos by the upload time. However, the number changes every time you change the way you sort the videos.
Anyways, they think that Googlified has 76,009,029 videos. Wow, I could be the next YouTube, don’t you think so? :)
*including videos from MetaCafe, YouTube and Google Video.
