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Google Paranoid about Potentially Harmful Sites

Jan 31, 2009 Security 1 Comment

Google got paranoid about harmful sites. Currently all search results returned by google contain a malware warning. I don´t know if google got hacked or if they have a self induced problem with malware detection. At least we know now what Google thinks about the Internet: “It´s all Malware” ;.). Nice comments are popping up everywhere on the Internet. I like this one:

Skynet – er, Google – has become self-aware and has deemed that the entire Internet is harmful to us power sour – I mean, humans, and is protecting us for some reason it has not divulged yet…

(from slashdot)

Update 1: It seems the syndrome has been discovered – googles outsourced malware partner, stopbadware.org, has gone down.

Update 2: stopbadware claims to be innocent! see: StopBadWare Blog

Update 3: Official Statement form Google – Essentialy they blacklisted “/”

Check your Feng-Shui API

Oct 2, 2008 Other 2 Comments

I just can´t believe what crazy ideas people have. Now there is an API that you can use to check the “Feng Shui” of your Website. Actually you can check any Image for its Feng Shui. What is meant is a virtually created  heat map (by artificial intelligence) as normally measured by an eye-tracking device. Read More..

Crazy Blog Real-Time Statistics Widget

Sep 27, 2008 Other Leave a comment

Just found a crazy real-time statistics widget from FEEDJIT. Right now (September 2008) you can see it in action on this site just below the about box on the right side of this page. It is not very attractive visually, but check out what it realy does.  Impressive, but little bit creepy – don´t you think? I don´t know how long the FEEDJIT widget will remain on this site. Maybe as long as some visitors of Api-Madness complain about feeling paranoid when they see this widget ;.)

UPDATE: I removed this script from start page as it slowed down pageloading too much. You can still find it on Widget Garbage Dump

Why the Ping Loop Did Not Crash Wordpress

Sep 10, 2008 Evolution of Madness 1 Comment

Some days ago I did the Ping Loop Test and I luckily had only 4 duplicate posts to clean up. Now the question is, why did the loop stop. To answer this i didn´t have to go into analyzing logfiles and plugin behavior.

Ping.FM has rate limits of 3 messages per rolling minute to prevent spam. This absolutly makes sense for a message distribution service like them. And it does not just prevent spam but it also prevents fast loops that could crash a service.

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