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What is the current listing status for google.com?
This site is not currently listed as suspicious.
What happened when Google visited this site?
Of the 37111 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 1 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2009-06-29, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2009-05-30.
Malicious software includes 19 scripting exploit(s), 1 trojan(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 8 new process(es) on the target machine.
Malicious software is hosted on 9 domain(s), including v3i9.cn/, wwwdegrees.info/, thelegion74.com/.
3 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including 74.125.77.0/, istologio.org/, said7.com/.
This site was hosted on 2 network(s) including AS15169 (GOOGLE), AS20940 (AKAMAI).
Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?
Over the past 90 days, google.com appeared to function as an intermediary for the infection of 2 site(s) including future-forcast.co.uk/, 2icv.com/.
Has this site hosted malware?
Yes, this site has hosted malicious software over the past 90 days. It infected 7 domain(s), including ap2day.net/, siamway.com/, kgiurc.cn/.
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Monday, June 29, 2009
Google Admits to Hosting MalWare/SpyWare
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Nokia N-97 Rocks! iPhone is a Rock!
Sorry for the detour post here, but I feel that marketing has deceived the masses regarding the truth about an overly-promoted iPhone. Feel free to ignore the millions of dollars Apple spent on viral marketing their modern-day digital watch, and find out what is roughly 7.2x better than the iPhone. I might be wrong on one or two of these points, but overall, the iPhone sucks bigtime.
I read over 50 comparison websites (professional & amateur) that compared phones from Samsung, LG, Blackberry, Palm, etc... and only the Nokia 97 really surpassed them all. I am looking for a phone that not only has a touch screen, but is a real work-horse for business.
iPhone 3G - Why it Sucks |
| You will need to mail it back in to factory to replace battery (once a year average). Hope it doesn;t get lost, and hope you can live without your phone for a week or two. |
| No copy/paste - HAHAHAHAHA! |
| $130 per month for unlimited minutes and data. ($100 for unlimited minutes, $30 for data). Since you can't unlock it really, there is no way to switch to someone cheaper.. T-Mobile for example is $10 per month. |
| Data-Capable—Cannot tether! (meaning you cant connect to your laptop as a modem, unless you know how to hack this) |
| Must use AT&T (unless you using Chinese iPhone knock-off). Studies show AT&T sucks. |
| Obviously slower internet than comparable phones (nothing like in the commercials) |
| No keyboard (a real drawback if you want to use your device for email, typing, messaging, and anything else remotely productive) |
| Websites that use Flash won't work. |
| No tilde character ~ (e.g. you need this to visit many websites that are under development) |
| Dropping it will often break the glass screen |
| Doesn’t record video |
| No file browser |
| Cannot save documents from email on to it |
| Cant MMS pics. |
| Lowest screen resolution and camera resolution of all phones |
| No compass |
| Built in memory. If you need more, then you will need to buy a new, more expensive iphone - much less capable too in terms of max capacity |
Nokia N97 - Why it Sucks |
| Like all phones with slide-out keyboard, it will be thicker |
| Doesn't use google maps, but claims to be better, and downloadable to device. |
| Since you can unlock it (GSM phone), and use it on any cell phone carrier network, you have more options in carriers. |
| Doesn't have a cool name like "iPhone," so its harder to impress chicks and guy friends. |
| Not quite as easy to navigate as iPhone - Waaah! |
| $700 and no carrier selling on the cheap. Although we are hoping for some sort of new discounts. BUT, off-set that by the fact that Skype comes pre-installed, and now you basically get unlimited minutes per month for a lot less (e.g. Alltel, T-Mobile, Verizon, etc...) lets you call between 1 and 5 numbers free, just call your Skype number and stop paying so much ($40 - $50 per month total?). |
| Won't work on CDMA networks (Verizon, Sprint, Nextel, Cricket, Alltel, Sprint PCS, Virgin Mobile), but will work on GSM (AT&T/Cingular, T-Mobile, and Rogers Wireless), but will do international roaming, unlike CDMA phones. I say, down with carriers that lock phones to their networks. Support T-Mobile who has better ratings and prices than Verizon according to J.D. Power associates, Consumer Reports and users alike. Check out CellReception for actual coverage ratings per zip code (very nice). |
| I am really trying here. |
| Nope. Nothing else really. |
Wait, there is one good thing about the iPhone. If you are too cheap to buy a separate Nano music player, the iPod is great. The iPod looks cuter too, which probably is important for some girls and some style nerds.
Some people say that some of these failures will be fixed on future firmware releases of the iPhone. The next version of iPhone will correct most of this, which is great if you already own one (keep it); but I am buying a phone for today. Are they adding a QWERTY keyboard too on the next release, and a replacable battery, and your choice of phone networks, and tethering? NO
In fact, I did a search on Phonescoop, and only the Nokia 97 matched all the criteria I selected. everything from GPS, to FM, to Flight mode, to WiFi. Here's info from phonescoop:
Also be sure to check out cell phone reviews by real users like TestFreaks, CNET, PhoneScoop, and other in-depth product reviews like InfoSync. I found that some great phones have terrible battery life, and really slow compared to what "experts" claim.
Here are some other serious contenders:
LV enV Touch VX-11000 (a.k.a. Voyager2) - It's so hard to tell the difference between some of the LG phones. - This NON-smart phone has, compared to the older model (Voyager VX10000) a slightly larger screen, higher screen resolution, camera, smaller, lighter, faster, better multimedia, 3.5mm jack. Since it's not smart, no way to open documents on it rendering it useless for business. Otherwise, great customer reviews.
Palm Pre - (06/2009) Great phone, but stuck using SPRINT. You may have heard the phrase "iPhone killer." Well, Sprint is what I call the "Palm Pre killer"
Blackberry Storm (RIM BlackBerry Storm 9530 / Research in Motion) - Is very good, if you don't mind the on screen keyboard with tactile response, which means you are actually depressing the screen when you push on a key. It's not bad, but was more difficult for me to use than a real keyboard. No WI-FI. Am I asking for too much here? Quoting Infosync "Interface is still sluggish, a bit buggy. Screen scrolls responsively, but everything else moves slowly, including response to hardware buttons. No Wi-Fi. Mediocre camera. Lousy Web browser."
T-Mobile HTC G1 - (Dream) is Google Android based, and is worth looking at too--but you cannot tether it without breaking T-Mobile TOS, and a little hacking. What good is a phone if you can't attach it to your comptuer for web-browsing when you're on the road? I guess looking for free hotspots is an alternative.
HTC Touch Pro - slow as molasses and terrible battery life; but features are good otherwise.
Nokia E71 - Older (2008) has no touch-screen, but highest ratings by users.
Ericson - Nevermind it
This flagship phone combines a touch display and a QWERTY keyboard in a slide+tilt form factor. Key features include 32 GB of built-in memory, a 5-megapixel camera, FM transmitter, WiFi, and GPS.
This phone has not been released yet. All specifications and features are preliminary and subject to change.
Specs |
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| Modes | GSM 850 / GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900 WCDMA 850 / WCDMA 1900 / WCDMA 2100 Americas version |
| Weight | 5.29 oz (150 g) |
| Dimensions | 4.61" x 2.18" x 0.63" (117 x 55 x 15.9 mm) |
| Form Factor | Slide with tilt-up display Internal Antenna |
| Battery | Talk: 5.3 hours max. (320 minutes) Standby: 700 hours max. (29.2 days) (WCDMA mode) 1500 mAh LiIon |
| Display | Type: LCD (Color TFT/TFD) Resolution: 360 x 640 pixels 3.5" diagonal Colors: 16.7 million (24-bit) |
| Platform / OS | S60 (Symbian) 5th Edition (Symbian 9.4) |
| Processor | 434 MHz ARM 11 |
| Memory | 32 GB (internal memory available to user for storage) |
| Phone Book Capacity | shared memory |
| FCC ID | QVVRM-505 » (Approved Apr 5, 2009) QVVRM-507 » (Approved May 2, 2009) |
Features |
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| GPS / Location | Type: A-GPS supports LBS |
| Accessibility | |
| Multiple Languages | Yes |
| Alerts | |
| Polyphonic Ringtones | Chords: 64 |
| Ringer Profiles | Yes |
| Vibrate | Yes |
| Connectivity | |
| Bluetooth | Supported Profiles: HSP, HFP, DUN, OPP, FTP, PBA, SAP, A2DP, AVRC, BIP, HID version 2.0+EDR |
| PC Sync | Yes |
| USB | Version: 2.0 high-speed supports mass storage, charging / built-in micro-USB connector |
| Wi-Fi | Version(s): 802.11 b,g supports WEP, WPA, WPA2 / UPnP |
| Contacts | |
| Multiple Numbers per Name | Yes |
| Picture ID | Yes |
| Ringer ID | Yes |
| Voice Dialing | Yes |
| Customization | |
| Custom Graphics | Yes |
| Custom Ringtones | Yes |
| Real-Music Ringers | Yes |
| Data & Network | |
| Data-Capable | Yes |
| Flight Mode | Yes |
| Packet Data | Technology: HSDPA 3.6 |
| WAP / Web Browser | Browser Software: WebKit-based HTML, WAP 2.0, XHTML, Flash Video / plus RSS reader |
| Input | |
| Predictive Text Entry | Technology: T9 in touch screen mode |
| Side Keys | Yes |
| Text Keyboard | Layout: QWERTY |
| Touch Screen | Primary input method: Finger also works with stylus |
| Memory | |
| Memory Card Slot | Card Type: microSD (TransFlash) up to at least 16 GB |
| Messaging | |
| Email Client | Protocols Supported: IMAP, POP, SMTP, Exchange, Lotus OMA email notification / supports attachments (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, ZIP, PDF) |
| MMS | SMIL |
| Text Messaging | 2-Way: Yes |
| Text Messaging Templates | Yes |
| Music | |
| FM Radio | Stereo: Yes with visual radio, RDS |
| FM Transmitter | Yes |
| Headphone Jack (3.5mm) | Nokia AV conector |
| Music Player | Supported Formats: AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR, AU, AWB, M4A, MP3, MP4, RealAudio, True tones, WAV, WMA |
| Stereo Speakers | Yes |
| Photo & Video | |
| Camera | Resolution: 5+ megapixel Carl Zeiss lens, auto-focus, dual LED flash, self timer / geo-tagging |
| PictBridge | Yes |
| Streaming Video | Yes |
| TV Output | Yes |
| Video Capture | Max. Length: 90 minutes VGA resolution, 30 fps / stabilization |
| Video Sharing | requires network support |
| Productivity | |
| Alarm | Yes |
| Calculator | plus converter |
| Calendar | Yes |
| SyncML | local and remote |
| To-Do List | Yes |
| Voice Memo | Yes |
| Software | |
| Games | Yes |
| Java (J2ME) | Version: MIDP 2.1, CLDC 1.1 supported JSRs: 75, 82, 135, 118, 139, 172, 177, 179, 184, 205, 226, 234, 248, 256 |
| Voice | |
| Speaker Phone | Yes |
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Google's Brand SEO Algorithm - How it Could Work
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Business Cloud Computing is HYPE. Prepared to get RIPPED off
Whats all the hype about? I mean who wants to pay three times as much to use a cloud service, over doing it yourself in-house?
There is only a few reasons where cloud computing makes sense, but I am guessing very few people fit into these:
1. When you are short on staff, or dont want them. Or don't have a couple thousand dollars to setup your own farm. Very small start-ups or applications fit into this group. But the savings soon dwindle after a few months. Use a credit card if you are experienced with this stuff, and buy a few servers instead (if you have a proven business model).
2. When you are trying to transition between 1 server and building your own cloud (3 to 6 servers), for a fully redundant system, but cannot afford to buy a few $500 servers on your own.
3. When you are technically not smart enough to do it yourself. Open source software like Wackamole, Squid, and others are comparable or better than commercial software, and powers tiny sites like Wikipedia, Youtube, Flickr and others in the top 10 or 20 most visited sites on the web.
4. When you are rich and lazy. Not me :( Is this you?
5. When your traffic is sporadic, like when your name is Barack Obama and you are hosting a one-day-per-month meeting. It doesn't make sense to waste 29 days, obviously, with your own servers.
And finally, one of the only valid reasons for any of us that are not a micro-sized start-up:
5. To use as a failover or backup for gigantic spikes that your servers cannot handle. This is recommended for anyone with an unpredictable traffic environment. But even then, Amazon and Yahoo have both gone done now and then, like Cyber-monday. We on the other hand were up without fail on such days (we are ecommerce).
Now I will say that Google's cloud is nice for the small developer, their free version rocks for a smaller projects.
We studied the costs of using the Amazon cloud, the Google cloud, other smaller commercial services, and in the end, they were always WAY more expensive than doing it ourselves. They weren't even close! We would pay more just for CPU time than we do for our entire server farm (about a dozen servers).
And we only use a fraction of our computing power available to us. Part of the trick is to get a low cost price on your datacenter, and the other part is to be able to get low cost servers. You can get entire racks of dual processor servers, a few years old for a few hundred bucks a piece from ebay or places that are liquidating their entire datacenter. Remember, we are claiming the same advantage that Google claims here: cheap hardware with multiple machines for redundancy. Google's service is using 1.2Ghz processors, which is equivalent to processors 10 years old. Bet you hadn't noticed that.
What they can do is provide a backup if for some reason we get a giant unexpected spike of traffic (dont think we have ever needed it); or if we are growing at ridiculous rates. I should mention we are an hosted ecommerce application service provider (a website you log into to use like Blogger, Yahoo Stores, Gmail, etc...).
In fact, every IT engineer I have read says the same thing. In this example, the cloud costs 3x as much as doing it in house, including labor. Even Mckinsey (the most trusted name in consulting) says the same, and it will only get more expensive.
"Using the model of Amazon.com Inc.'s (AMZN) cloud service, McKinsey said an actual customer, whose identity it didn't disclose, more than doubled the cost of technology by using a cloud service, compared with a typical corporate data center. Hype around cloud computing is creating a "gold rush," McKinsey said, with companies piling in to offer competing technologies. But while the model offers significant benefits to smaller companies and business units within larger companies, the vendors are currently benefiting more than the customers."
Seems a lot of other smart people agree too like Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation. He believes that "cloud computing endangers liberties because users sacrifice their privacy and personal data to a third party. He stated that cloud computing "was simply a trap aimed at forcing more people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that would cost them more and more over time."
I recommend that when looking at cloud computing, to realize the cost per CPU time. Usually the CPU's are incredibly lower powered than what you are used to, so you need a lot more power to get stuff done. If you are still needing a server or two worth of computing power, cloud computing may be for you.
Also, if you are truly a small startup, and want to move really fast, cloud computing may give you a serious headstart as well without the time and labor to setup a fully redundant system.
As someone who studied Saas for five years, Diane says: "What we are finding is that the ROI/cost of ownership for clouds are much higher than our costs for purchasing and supporting a more traditional client-server application. The primary differences are, of course, the on-going monthly fees to cloud vendors vs. the up-front implementation fees and hardware purchases for client server." I even use redundant/cloud computing for a couple personal projects, but am only paying $20 per month.
There are a few reports that claim cloud computing is cheaper, but those reports appear to have been sponsored/pushed by companies selling cloud services.
Do the math, and you will discover as well why cloud computing is a waste for most companies. Use it as a buffer, a backup, a scaling buffer, but for nothing else. In the meantime, I will wait for the sun to disperse this cloud computing hype.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Google's Page 5 Penalty
Many of you may remember CourtneyTuttle.com ranking #2 for the phrase "internet marketing," and then, one day, his site practically disappeared. Well it finally has returned, and truth is, it was never gone completely. It suffered from the "Page 5 Penalty."
Basically, he cannot rank for anything above the fifth page of Google results. Sometimes results are spread out on page 6, 7, etc... but the point is, the site wouldn't even rank for its own name. If you Google'd CourtneyTuttle, his site would show up on page 5.
This appears to be happening often in certain competitive industries, and Courtny's is the only site I have ever seen come back from this. But the real questions are:
- What are all the reasons this penalty can happen
- And what percentage of it is automatic/manual?
- How many sites have you seen bounce back from this penalty?
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Google Promote Button Means Almost Nothing to SEO's
Fear-mongering reigns again in the search arena after one of their latest feature launch: Google Promote. This allows people to modify their own search results as they feel best. And here is why it won't matter that much:
1. Usage of the feature will be relatively unused due to several usability problems.
- The problem is, most people will not want to or care to edit those results AFTER they have gone to your website;
- It will be confusing to them to move rankings around constantly for stuff for which they search regularly;
- It makes a lot more sense to edit the results BEFORE they have gone to your site; but they have almost no data to make an informed decision.
- Many people I observe do not click "Back" in their browser to start a new search, thereby preventing them from editing results based on what they thought of your site;
- Part of the problem is that people are doing so many searches, they don't care to give a review of each and every website that they visit;
- The exception is if your site, or TITLE tag is really irrelevant to their search. This will help get rid of the worst results, and SPAM which probably shouldn't be ranking anyways.
3. Therefore, your TITLE tag should reign supreme in convincing people your site is more important, because if they are going to move your site up or down, chances are they will do this before they visit your website.
4. I have good websites, therefore, I am not worried. Ranking is still prime, but if your site is worthless, then you may be in some trouble. But you see, the ability to rank is still critical.
5. Google cannot depend on personal results too much if they are to let this affect the rankings for everyone else. Otherwise you will start to see hackers with bot armies acting like insurance rings where a bunch of fake witness (working together) to report something together that's not true.
There are exceptions though, and these exceptions should help niche sites compete better.
- The fact is, if a searcher finds your site, and thinks it is what they were looking for then they might bump it up, otherwise, bump it down. I may for example bump down Wikipedia and Ebay results because I get sick of seeing them constantly.
- Higher conversion rates lead to better rankings. For customers that you do gain, I would hope that they will bump your site higher (we hope), thereby making them a repeat visitor. Therefore, the higher conversion rate and stickiness you have on your website, the better chance you have to get bumped up on your results.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Google Crawl TURRBOOOOOO
I sped up Google's crawl rate by 49,000% !!!
Okay, so not really. If you didn't notice already, Google now offers insane crawl speeds to all your websites, no matter how unpopular your site may currently be. However, it was really designed to be a way to slow down the Google crawler if your hosting company/server sucks. It won't make Google come back more often if your site doesn't have a lot of new content/links regularly.
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