New leadership could help Google break through its adversarial, user-hating approach

There have been quite a few tech posts here of late, but there are a few points that can be drawn. The first was how deceptive some brands can be for people who would rather not peel back the top layer to see what lies beneath. Even when the media expose their wrongdoings—as the Murdoch […]

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Webmaster sees Google blacklist his site for two months

  No matter how bad you think you’ve got it, some poor bugger has it worse. One webmaster, Steven Don, has had Google claim that he has anywhere between nine and fourteen trojans on his website, but he has none. The Google Safe Browsing page claims nine trojans presently, but can’t say which domains he […]

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How brands fool us

The Google experience over the last week—and I can say ‘week’ because there were still a few browsers showing blocks yesterday—reminds me of how brands can be resilient.    First, I know it’s hard for most people to believe that Google is so incompetent—or even downright corrupt, when it came to its bypassing Safari users’ […]

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Google: nothing was wrong since April 6, so the planet just imagined those last six days

Here’s Google’s Webmaster Tools this morning. Apparently, now it says there has been nothing wrong at the Lucire website since April 6. Which is what we’ve been saying for six days. Gee, we all must have imagined those attack warnings for the last six days. Google’s record now shows they never happened. As it’s Google, […]

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Google, hacks, privacy breaches, and ad codes: there’s a pattern emerging here

In all my recent posts, I’ve stopped short of saying that Google hacked us, but that the code inserted had Google’s name all over it.    But if Google was party to or had profited from hacking, then it wouldn’t be the first time, right?    Remember when Google hacked the Safari browser to track […]

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Of course Google’s Chrome blocks this site, too, over false accusations

This is from my good friend Alexandru Dutulescu. Where I come from, this is libellous, since it is, well, a load of bollocks. In the delusions of Googleland, presumably, this is an innocent computer error. I can’t believe how often Google gets away with this stuff just by fooling people and telling them their motto […]

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Day six of the Google boycott: if The New York Times isn’t safe from blacklisting, then how can we be?

It’s day six on the Google blacklist for Lucire. And no, we still don’t know what they are talking about. StopBadware doesn’t know what they are talking about. Our web guys and all our team in different parts of the world don’t know what they are talking about.    Today, I decided to venture to […]

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Chrome continues to block sites although Stop Badware clears them

I’m pleased to note that the Stop Badware people have manually analysed jackyan.com, lucire.com and autocade.net, and cleared all sites at 8.01, 8.01 and 10.01 a.m. GMT respectively.    Google, however, is still showing this to Chrome users as at 9.10 a.m. if they visit the Lucire website:        I am not surprised. […]

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How Google can get it wrong: an expert on malware gives advice

Frustrated with ongoing Google’s false accusations over our websites, I joined the Stop Badware community today (Badware Busters), and got some sensible advice from a Dr Anirban Banerjee of www.stopthehacker.com.    He had checked what Google was on about, and noted that it was still making the same accusations it did on Saturday—when we know […]

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