What is Google IndexBench?
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What is Google IndexBench? Someone at Google is up to something that has to do with indexes or benches, or both, and has been purchasing several domains related to the term &#8220;index bench.&#8221; Gary Price of ResourceShelf and Ask.com pointed out on Friday that Google has registered the following domain names: bench-index.com (and .org, .info), benchindex.com (and [...]
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ObjectsSearch Offers Open Source Search Results  Aiming to provide users with unbiased website ranking, ObjectsSearch.com has launched an open source search engine based on Nutch.org's search. ObjectsSearch looks to solve problems related to search result manipulation and information overload. ObjectsSearch claims that their open source approach provides an "alternative to commercial ...
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People who use public or workplace computers for e-mail, instant messaging and Web searching have a new security risk to worry about: Google&#39;s free new tool that indexes a PC&#39;s contents for quickly finding data.
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(InfoWorld) - Just one day after a security researcher showed how Google'sÂ Firefox toolbar could be exploitedÂ in an online attack, a similar flaw has been discovered in the Google Desktop. On Thursday, Google hacker Robert Hansen posted proof of concept details showing how attackers could use Google Desktop to launch software that had already been installed on the victim's computer. The attack is hard to pull off and could not necessarily be used to install unauthorized software on the victim's PC, but it does illustrate the kind of security issues that arise with Web-based applications, said Hansen, the CEO of Web security consultancy Sectheory.com, and a contributor to the Ha.ckers.org Web site. "When you have third parties writing code that interacts with your browser, it inherently breaks the browser security model," he said. To exploit Hansen's Google Desktop vulnerability, an attacker would first have to launch a successful "man-in-the-middle" attack, somehow placing himself between the victim and Google's servers. This could by done by tricking the victim into logging onto a malicious wireless network, Hansen said. Once this was done, the hacker could launch Hansen's attack by changing the Web pages being delivered to the victim's PC. By returning Web pages that have been doctored with new JavaScript code, the victim could be tricked into clicking onto a malicious link, Hansen said. "When they actually click that mouse button, they're not clicking on the Web page, they're clicking on a link to Google Desktop that actually runs code, " he said. The steps Hansen took to pull off the attack are complex because of the security features that Google has built into its software, he added. "What I've done is combine a lot of different attacks that Google desperately tries to prevent." On Wednesday researcher Christopher Soghoian showed how a man-in-the-middle attack could be used to install malicious software on computers that used a variety of popular Firefox add-ons, including the toolbars from Google, Yahoo, and AOL. Hansen has posted a video showing how this attack could be used to launch Windows HyperTerminal. But it could be used to launch virtually any application that has already been installed on the PC, he said. This isÂ not the first bug in Google Desktop. In February, engineers at WatchfireÂ showed how a flaw in the program's Advanced Search Feature could be used to gain access to data or even run unauthorized software on a victim's computer. Two days after the Watchfire bug was disclosed, Hansen himself showed how attackers couldÂ steal information from Google Desktop usersÂ using what is called an anti-DNS (Domain Name System) pinning attack. Google was not immediately available to comment for this story. Â
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Google has developed an add-on for the desktop search tool it unveiled last month. Called gdSuite, it gives its search function a Windows-like interface, Gartner research director Allen Weiner tells NewsFactor.
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Tim Berners-Lee gives the world its first practical web browser. Can Google be far behind? Compiled by Tony Long.
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Huge databases that generate Web site content on the fly can be the bane of search engine spiders' existence. They can't find pages; they can't see URLs. So they can't index pages.
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The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a UI framework for Java developers to create interactive user interfaces using familiar idioms from Java's Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT), Swing, and the Eclipse Foundation's SWT. This short cut assumes that you've already installed GWT and have experimented with its basic features. By David Geary. 0402
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- Credit Suisse First Boston analysts overnight set a 12-month, $145 per share price target for Google (GOOG) , telling clients it expects the Internet search engine to grow revenue by around 50 percent a year over the next five years.
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Search enabler Google says it has acquired digital mapping company Keyhole for an undisclosed sum. Keyhole maintains a multiterabyte database of digital images of geographic locations, culled from satellite and aerial snapshots.
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Get a closer look at the screenshots from our review of Google's new enterprise Web tools.
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I've made a few passive mentions of my Lucene  Desktop prototype here on PeerFear in the last few days and I'm amazed how much feedback I've had.  People really want to start work on an Open Source desktop search based on Lucene.  * Current Status *  I have a prototype implemented that runs from the console and accepts a given directory to index and writes it to ~/.lucene-desktop.  It then has a console searcher that returns the output in grep format:  file:rank  I'm trying to get keyword in context to work but I haven't had a chance to hack on this recently.  I need another 30 minutes to integrate the Lucene Highlighter and then I should be done.  At this point I will return:  file:rank:hit ...
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(InfoWorld) - Those curious about what enhancements Google may implement in its search engine should check out a new site called SearchMash. Operated by Google,Â SearchMashÂ is a testing ground for user interface changes that may or may not graduate to the Google.com search engine, a company spokeswoman said via e-mail. "The goal of SearchMash is to test innovative user interfaces in order to continually improve the overall search experience for our users," she wrote. The experimental search engine looks very different from Google's Web sites and lacks Google branding. In this way, Google believes the site will yield more objective feedback from users, the spokeswoman said. SearchMash went up recently and can handle limited traffic, which may render it unavailable sometimes, she wrote. Google.com's famously minimalistic look revolutionized Web user interfaces in the late 1990s, when home pages tended toward a cluttered look. Over the years, Google has been conservative about altering its site's design, so changes often attract wide attention. When Google runs user interface tests on google.com, they invariably get reported about in the blogosphere along with screen shots and a heavy dose of speculation over the chances the changes have of being permanent.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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Search giant launches Google Gears, open-source software that brings offline access and local storage to the Web browser.
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By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 1--Google announced today it has acquired FeedBurner, a Chicago-based company that distributes blog posts and digital advertising through a technology known as RSS, or Really Simple Syndication.
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Google Desktop Search Has Launched  Google quietly launched its Google Desktop Search today and a slew of bloggers have tested it, reviewed it, and are currently testing it, including yours truly. Google Desktop is a frightfully fast application which searches desktop documents, web browser history, and chat room conversations (in AOL's ...
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With four in the last week, is Google the next security buffoon? Analysis Google's desktop search application is vulnerable to an exploit that allows a determined attacker to remotely run most programs installed on a victim's machine. The flaw is one of at least four security holes to visit Google this past week, demonstrating that the search king, despite the god-like aura it enjoys for its pleasing software designs, remains a mere mortal in the security cosmos.â¦