The answer’s no: Google’s still in a dream world

That was an interesting experiment. Although Lucire Men is still clear (for now), Google decided it would play silly buggers a few hours after we put our (clean) ad server code back on Autocade:        But why? Here’s what Google says:     which means: we can’t find anything wrong with this site […]

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Putting back allegedly “malicious” code: has Google caught up with reality?

Not a political post, sorry. This one follows up from the Google boycott earlier this month and is further proof of how the house of G gets it very, very wrong when it comes to malware warnings.    As those who followed this case know, our ad server was hacked on April 6 but both […]

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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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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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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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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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Google can’t find any more problematic pages, yet continues blacklisting

Google continues to throw up big red flags to anyone visiting Lucire’s website today, although its own Webmaster Tools page reveals that it has not found any problems since Saturday:    Given that we had sewn up the server on Saturday, and deleted every instance of the hack, then Webmaster Tools’ inability to find dodgy […]

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Technology is improving

Further to my post yesterday, things weren’t working ship-shape, as I recounted in my postscript. But for now, I think I have the LevelOne wifi adapter working. It led me to remark on how much more quickly tech issues now get fixed. • Fixing a TelstraClear internet connection that only goes down on a windy […]

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YouTube loves Tanya Roberts

Here’s a quickie for tonight. Rather than rewrite it, as it has appeared on my Tumblr, here’s a brief summary.    YouTube loves Tanya Roberts. No matter what you search for, it will often give you a result about Tanya Roberts and her husband dying. It has been giving us this result for weeks.   […]

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The revenge of Arial

To think, if I actually followed the advice of the Microsoft expert, I would still have a non-functioning Internet Explorer 9 that displayed blank pages. Rule no. 1: when it comes to computing, never follow the advice of a self-righteous expert. An everyday user who found out things the hard way, sure. An expert who […]

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