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Google Plugs Hole That Lets You Remove Any Website

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the yeah-we-uhh-meant-to-do-that dept.

blowdart writes "Google today disabled their webmaster tools after it was discovered that anyone could use the tool to remove any site from the google index. The exploit was pretty simple, all anyone had to do was to have a google webmasters tool account and edit a query string parameter on a valid removal to point to a domain they didn't own!"

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  1. Re:I really wish... by RedACE7500 · · Score: 5, Informative

    1. Log in to your Google Account
    2. Search for Experts Exchange
    3. Click on the result for Experts Exchange
    4. Press Back on your browser
    5. Click "Block all www.experts-exchange.com results"

  2. Re:Bobby tables by Shikaku · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://bobby-tables.com/ Obligatory response.

  3. Re:I really wish... by RedACE7500 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Alternatively, manually block sites from your results here: http://www.google.com/reviews/t