Remove any Site From Google (even if you don't control it)
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Remove any Site From Google (even if you don't control it)
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Re: Remove any Site From Google (even if you don't control it)
#2I suspect some googlers are going to have a long night :-).
Re: Remove any Site From Google (even if you don't control it)
#3Despite it being "fixed" not long after the blog post went live, I wonder how long/how many people knew about this bug. Seems like it would be a great trick for SEO (build page to certain PR/remove opponents ranking above you)
Re: Remove any Site From Google (even if you don't control it)
#4I don't know how is possible that a so obvious bug passed their quality department, and I wonder if someone didnt discovered it before and was doing this to take out competitors indexes..
Re: Remove any Site From Google (even if you don't control it)
#5I think it's sad that he had to resort to publicly releasing this exploit because he couldn't find a way to contact Google about it.
In the past, when I've had problems, I couldn't contact them either. They've done a great job at making sure there's no human contacts available. You have to post something in a public forum and hope they'll contact you. (They won't.)
Re: Remove any Site From Google (even if you don't control it)
#6His first blog post...talk about setting high expectations.
Re: Remove any Site From Google (even if you don't control it)
#7I think it's sad that he had to resort to publicly releasing this exploit because he couldn't find a way to contact Google about it. In the past, when I've had problems, I couldn't contact them either. They've done a great job at making sure there's no human contacts available. You have to post something in a public forum and hope they'll contact you. (They won't.)
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Re: Remove any Site From Google (even if you don't control it)
#8I think it's sad that he had to resort to publicly releasing this exploit because he couldn't find a way to contact Google about it. In the past, when I've had problems, I couldn't contact them either. They've done a great job at making sure there's no human contacts available. You have to post something in a public forum and hope they'll contact you. (They won't.)
Sending an email to security@google.com will result in a quick response. As part of their bug bounty program Google would have paid $1,000 for this bug if not more.
Re: Remove any Site From Google (even if you don't control it)
#9I don't know how is possible that a so obvious bug passed their quality department, and I wonder if someone didnt discovered it before and was doing this to take out competitors indexes..
Bugs happen. Even big ones like this. Any engineer worth his money knows that no amount of Q&A will discover 100% of the bugs. But, as Joel Spolsky said somewhere, bugs are just bugs, you fix them and then they're fixed.
Re: Remove any Site From Google (even if you don't control it)
#10I think it's sad that he had to resort to publicly releasing this exploit because he couldn't find a way to contact Google about it. In the past, when I've had problems, I couldn't contact them either. They've done a great job at making sure there's no human contacts available. You have to post something in a public forum and hope they'll contact you. (They won't.)
Sending an email to security@google.com will result in a quick response. As part of their bug bounty program Google would have paid $1,000 for this bug if not more.
The biggest problem when the 911 (and equivalent emergency services) was getting the word out there that it existed. It required a huge, years-long marketing campaign. Perhaps they should have inhouse ads targeted at keywords like "report vulnerability".