Experts Have A Warning About New Google Search Tool
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Googles new desktop search tool ferrets out files on hard drives much as the traditional Google search engine chases down pages in cyberspace.
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Google has been warned that it may be violating European Union privacy laws by storing search data for up to two years.
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Google's latest experiment in opening up its massive resources for the latest in knowledge and wisdom, has a familiar ring to it. And perhaps for that reason, the outcome of that experiment can be predicted.
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Internet search giant Google&#39;s aficionados may just have lost some vital information that could hurt their wallet! Hackers exploiting a flaw in Google&#39;s desktop search tool launched a week back could have
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Google Inc. is seeking user feedback as it experiments with new views of its search results.
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Google Inc. on Thursday formally launched a new search service aimed at scientists and academic researchers. Google Scholar is a free beta service that allows users to search for scholarly literature
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Google's new commitment to on-demand apps should terrify Salesforce.com.
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Google has a problem -- a good one.
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The latest malware trend should prompt you to think twice about the links you click next time you search.
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(InfoWorld) - Google Inc. has inadvertently given online attackers a new tool. The company'sÂ new source-code search engine, unveiled Thursday as a tool to help simplify life for developers, can also be misused to search for software bugs, password information, and even proprietary code that shouldn't have been posted to the Internet in the first place, security experts said Friday. UnlikeÂ Google's main Web search engine,Â Google Code Search peeks into the actual lines of code whenever it finds source-code files on the Internet. This will make it easier for developers to search source code directly and dig up open-source tools they may not have known about, but it has a drawback. "The downside is that you could also use that kind of search to look for things that are vulnerable and then guess who might have used that code snippet and then just fire away at it," said Mike Armistead, vice president of products with source-code analysis provider Fortify Software Inc. Attackers could also search code for vulnerabilities in password mechanisms, or to search for phrases within software such as "this file contains proprietary," possibly unearthing source code that should never have been posted to the Internet. Security experts say that the security implications of Google Code Search are noteworthy, if not earth-shattering. Skilled hackers may already be able to do this type of search with Google's Web search engine, but Code Search is "another tool that makes it a tad easier for the attacker," said Johnny Long, a security researcher with Computer Sciences Corp, in an e-mail interview. For its part, Google did not have much to say about possible misuse of its new product. "Google recommends developers use generally accepted good coding practices including understanding the implications of the code they implement and testing appropriately," the company said in a statement. Google has never said much about the steps it takes to cut down on this kind of misuse of its search engine, though the issue comes up from time to time.Â In July, Websense Inc. used a little know binary search capability within Google Inc.'s search engine to look for malware on the Internet. While Google Code Search will probably not have much of an effect on popular open-source projects, which are already heavily scrutinized, it could help ferret out vulnerabilities in lesser known pieces of code, according to Lev Toger, a software developer with Beyond Security Ltd. "Using Google's code search, it's much easier to find interesting code portions," he said via e-mail. "If your task is to find vulnerability in some random code, this filtering can save you a lot of time. " Â
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Google's move to present results from multiple vertical searches in general search results will affect both searchers and search marketers.
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Won't take 'No' for an answer A week ago, a federal judge told Google it should contact the Department of Justice with any complaints about the desktop search tools built into Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system. But Google has other ideas.â¦
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Google has been warned that it may be violating European Union privacy laws by storing search data from its users for up to two years.
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Reports that Google is planning a Mac version of its Desktop Search tool, recently released in beta for Windows, are not entirely accurate, according to publisher Tim O&#39;Reilly.
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Getting ranked in news search engines, and now in universal search engines, is about to get a whole lot harder with the influx of more savvy PR professionals and offline media companies.
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Google Inc. plans to announce on Thursday that it is adding a new search service aimed at scientists and academic researchers. Google Scholar, which was scheduled to
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A potential security flaw has been found in Google&#39;s Desktop Search by a Rice University professor and two of his students. A hacker could use the glitch to search the content of someone&#39;s computer via the internet.