Google “Ana-Busted”
Google Caught Spying with Their Own Software In the wee morning hours I decided to check the daily stats on our newly installed Google Analytics account. Know thy enemy right? Anyhow, much to my surprise, and great interest, I noticed a small plip on the screen to the far west of the continental US. Mousing over said plip low and behold the all too famous town of Mountain View, California appeared before my eyes. For those of you not with me that is the home town of Google HQ. To confirm my suspicions I clicked over to the â€Å”Network Location†of our Mountain View visitor and observed that â€Å”Google†was the answer. Further analysis revealed that they typed the url in directly and are using Firefox...
The War is Coming.
The War Is Coming The first cyber-war will be big. For the longest time we have thought of cyber-war in terms of government agents launching digital attacks against an enemy country’s infrastructure. Perhaps it would be terrorists hacking into a government’s treasury, or digital mercenaries shutting down the power grid. The first cyber-war, however, will be nothing like that. It will involve governments only tangetially. And the heroes of this war will be the spammers. With the recent closing of Blue Security Group, Eran Reshef, CEO of Blue Security said, “It’s clear to us that [quitting] would be the only thing to prevent a full-scale cyber-war that we just don’t have the authority to start.” Reshef’s anti-spam company...
Digg Search Slowest Among Top Sites
I know many of us have felt the drag of a Digg search, but their is verifiable evidence that Digg is one of the slowest among the web2.0 and search giants. According to GrapPERF2.1, one of the leading resources on the web for tracking top site performance including response time, up-time, etc. is currently ranking DIGG search as one of the lowest speed quality averaging 5.1 seconds to complete a search. This is fairly average for the frequented page on Digg whose worst performance in the last 50 hours was nearly a 20 second average wait time. Leading the list is Technorati-Mobile, whose averages are fractions of a second and the venerable Google 1-word search which remains the fastest response time for a search function. If Digg is going to compete in the...
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