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June Will Be Month of Search Engine Bugs

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the put-on-your-hard-hats dept.

De Garmo writes "A Ukranian hacker known as "MustLive" has announced plans for a Month of Search Engine Bugs project in June 2007. The plan is to shake out cross-site scripting bugs in the most popular search engines (think Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask.com) and publish details on these flaws. From the article: "[The] purpose of this Month of Bugs is a demonstration of real state with security in search engines, which are the most popular sites in Internet. To let users of search engines and web community as a whole to understand all risks, which search engines bring to them. And also to draw attention of search engines' owners to security issues of their sites.""

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  1. Well by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Well, if it is "bugs" you are looking for (not just security exploits), here is one:

    Try searching google for "\\.\"

    You Windows driver programmers should know what it is about.

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    "When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
    1. Re:Well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      Submitting a completely blank search box just sends you to the google homepage.
      http://www.google.com/search?q=

      Searching for something that returns no hits gives you a helpful message
      http://www.google.com/search?q=ncjkxhsk%5Caflhjsdk a

      But searching for only symbols gives you a nice blank page!
      http://www.google.com/search?q=()())

      Fun and games with google!

    2. Re:Well by highonlife · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Here is something that should be more of interest.

      Search for ".com" in google.
      http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=.com&btnG=Goo gle+Search&meta=
      The first site found is microsoft, the second site found is yahoo. Now if i understand the pagerank system correctly, and i find this reasonably hard to believe, this means that more people link to yahoo and microsoft than google itself? Further down the page you find amazon, and even ask.com
      On the other hand, i think this is reasonable proof that google isnt doctoring it's search results to lower the page rank of its main rivals. Or in Google's eyes...is this a bug?