Rice grads, professor find flaw in Google
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A security flaw that could have caused big trouble for Google and its new Desktop Search tool has been fixed, thanks to a Rice University professor and two of his graduate students.
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Integrated attack Google has fixed a security flaw in its desktop search software that created a means for hackers to rifle through personal files on users' PCs.â¦
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Teaching search engines to see Web pages the way people do could improve their performance.
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A Rice University computer scientist and two of his students discovered a potentially serious security flaw in the desktop search tool recently distributed by Google, a newspaper report said Monday.
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(Article Central) A glitch was discovered in Google Desktop that could allow an attacker to access the contents of a PC from the Internet, according to a report in The New York Times.
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Faced with ultimatum, Google finally responds Google researchers have at last responded to a hacker who says he's uncovered more than 40 YouTube flaws that put users at risk.â¦
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Opinion: Whether they realize it or not, many people leave sensitive information out in plain view on Web sites. But sooner or later, a Google search will dig it up.
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Google has said that the software flaw found in its Desktop Search utility has been fixed. The flaw allowed hackers to view information contained on a PC running the search software.
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(InfoWorld) - Just a few days after the introduction of a search engine that works primarily using human labor, Google says, "Me too." "People think of Google as pure algorithms," said Matt Cutts, search quality engineer at Google, speaking at the Search Marketing Expo in Seattle on Monday. "We've recently begun trying to communicate the fact that we're not averse to using some manual intervention." Cutts' comments follow the launch Wednesday of an early version of Mahalo.com, a new search engine that operates using people who dig through the Internet manually looking for quality sites. Mahalo.com currently can deliver results for 4,000 popular search terms with plans to reach 10,000 terms by the end of the year. Workers weed out spam sites, sites with overbearing advertising, pages that regurgitate information without giving appropriate credit to the source, and sites of unknown origin. Over the last couple of months, Google has altered some explanations on its Webmaster Guidelines pages to reflect changes it may make in how much human interaction affects its search results, Cutts said. Google has changed the wording in places from saying that certain functions operate 100 percent using the company's search algorithms to now saying more vaguely that the company uses scalable and robust techniques, he said. "We're trying to make the distinction that humans are a wonderful way to improve search quality, but we have to do that in a way that is scalable and robust. Our Webmaster Guidelines have changed to reflect this possibility," he said. Some Google functions do fully work using the algorithm. For example, the algorithm designed to prevent Google bombing, where people cause certain sites to rank, usually for an obscure or humorous search term, uses no human intervention, Cutts said. "The Google bomb algorithm is completely automatic," he said. It runs once every three or four months, he said. Google uses human interaction for a variety of different functions such as acting on spam, he said. "Google does reserve the right to use humans in a scalable way," he said. Additional human interaction might come if Google decides to allow anyone to report people who buy links in order to try to improve their search rankings. "I wouldn't be surprised if we add something on the Webmaster console to report that," Cutts said. He also said that Google may rewrite its guidelines to include more detail about the types of techniques that could get sites banned. Currently, the guidelines include often vague instructions, such as to avoid link schemes designed to boost a site's popularity. That can include a number of different tactics, which Google doesn't spell out. "It would be great to start giving more examples," Cutts said.
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While Google has risen in prominence and popularity, the details of its search software, even though it is open source, are largely unknown to outsiders.
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Computer scientists have discovered a potentially serious flaw in Google&#39;s desktop search utility that could allow attackers to steal information.
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By John McBride, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 10--You go to Google and get your search results -- then what?   How do you know whether the sites Google returns can be trusted? You can't. It's you against the world.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- On a spring Saturday, about 90 students from Stanford and as many from the University of California at Berkeley converged on Google's corporate campus for a day of spirited team competition over mind-bending puzzles, Lego building problems, and video games.
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Google on Thursday fixed a security flaw in its Web search service that could have allowed malicious hackers to modify its pages. According to a report posted to the Bugtraq Security Focus list on Wednesday
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Google fixed a flaw in its Google Desktop Search(GDS)that could have given hackers access to users&#39; local searches, officials said Monday.
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GOOGLE, the world&#39;s number one search engine, has lost its edge. That&#39;s the considered view of software engineers who have been testing an early version of Microsoft&#39;s MSN Search service, released last week.
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Google said Monday that it has fixed a security flaw in its new desktop computer search tool that could have allowed attackers to read parts of files stored on a user&#39;s computer.