Hacking
Hacking is the fuction performed by a hacker. Wiki: Hacker is a term applied often to computer software or computer hardware programmers, designers and administrators, and especially those who are perceived as experts or highly... [more]
Hacking is the fuction performed by a hacker.
Wiki:
Hacker is a term applied often to computer software or computer hardware programmers, designers and administrators, and especially those who are perceived as experts or highly accomplished. A hacker is also someone who modifies electronics, for example, ham radio transceivers, printers or even home sprinkler systems for extra functionality or performance. The term usually bears strong connotations, but may be either favorable or denigrating depending on cultural context. A hacker is also an individual who circumvents security to gain access to a place that is secure.
We are not a Malware Site
As we struggle through being labeled by Google as a malware site, we are having a crash course in what to do when the Google Gods of search think you are dangerous. Now there is an even bigger problem, as we work on the web site, and write cool stuff, there are things that people need to do to get the Google Gods to bless you again.
Asking for a review via the Web Master Tools is just the beginning, the problem intensifies itself when you need to figure out that Google is going to take its own sweet team cleaning up the disaster in their index.
It does not matter how fast you clean it up…what matters is how fast Google can clear an erroneous flag in their database.
Struggling through the whole Google banning malware issue has been interesting. It took less than five hours for Google to work out and effectively kill the site in the Google search results. We figured it out in about another five hours and got the whole thing cleaned up in conjunction with the hosting company.
Now Google comes up with this friendly message in their web master tools.
Two weeks, for what took hours on our part to clean up, it will take a minimum of two weeks for Google to get the site killing malware link down.
Quick to damn, slow to fix, that is an issue for any one who runs a web site or blog, or anything else that gets dinged by the almighty gods of Google.
For someone who is extremely quick to fix things, Google should be as timely as well, since they essentially hold the keys to the kingdom for sending traffic your way, if the site is doing due diligence, then they should be as well. No one should have to wait two weeks with a false representation of their web site, blog, or otherwise.
Killer, wrong, and dead wrong. Come on Google, if you are going to kill off a web site, at least have the courtesy to respond at Internet speed. Taking two weeks to check to see if we are “ok” is absolutely unacceptable, especially when it takes less than 5 minutes to come visit the site and clear the flag.
Keywords: Google, malware, label, site, web master tools, messages, stopbadware.org, due diligence, Internet
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