The internet through a developers eyes

Google Desktop XML back door!

Posted last year, mid-March by Dave.
Categories: Web Developement, IIS 5.x +, Internet, Search, Servers, Platforms, Windows, Google.
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Did you know that Google Desktop contains a back door? Would you believe me if I said it was XML? Well next time you do a search on Google Desktop, add the following to the end of the results URL “&format=xml” and you will see your results in XML format.
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Where are they?

Posted 2 years ago, mid-August by Dave.
Categories: Internet, Search.
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Yesterday I got a call off a friend who asked “…can a laptop be traced?….”, after two calls he was then asking, how? I told him that it is a little harder then explaining it on the phone sitting on the bus going home!So I thought I would explain how to trace someone on the Internet. It isn’t 100% fool proof but for the average user it is affective.

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To search or not to search?

Posted 2 years ago, mid-August by Dave.
Categories: Search.
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A coworker told me about the recent find on the Internet, that has a lot of people on the Internet going crazy with excitement. So big of a find, that some peoples privacy is being invaded, the AOL Search Logs! Nothing less then a screw up, in my opinion one of the biggest screw ups in the history of the Internet.

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