Project Shield: Google Wants to Protect News and Human Rights Websites from DDOS Attack

DDOS aka Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is an attempt to make an online service unavailable by overwhelming it with traffic from multiple sources. Attacker target a wide variety of important resources and present a major challenge to making sure people can publish and access important information.
We have seen many DDOS attack in past few months which includes a long lasting attack on code repository service GitHub. Many sites providing controversial facts were affected by the attack and are still susceptible to attack at any time. Google has launched Project Shield to help protect small news and human rights websites from DDoS attacks.
Google Says –

Project Shield is an initiative launched by Google Ideas to use Google’s own Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack mitigation technology to protect free expression online. The service allows other websites to serve their content through Google’s infrastructure without having to move their hosting location. We are currently seeking new websites to try the service as trusted testers.

Websites need protection can apply for early invite at https://projectshield.withgoogle.com/public/#application-form. Once a website has been sent an invite to become a ‘trusted tester’, they will receive an invite to join the initiative and instructions on how to configure their website for the DDoS mitigation.
Though Google does not guarantees uptime or protection levels but still its an great initiative. Google has designed its infrastructure to defend itself and this initiative is aimed at extending free protection to third-party websites. After receiving an invite to sign up, there are a few steps required to set up the service. All the information web masters need will be emailed to them. A webmaster with admin privileges and basic technical knowledge (e.g. comfortable configuring a web-server and modifying DNS records) should be able to set up the service in about 10 minutes.

During the testing process, Project Shield will be free. Google might charge in the future, but participants will get 30-day notice. “We’re hoping to offer the service to charities and non-profits at a reduced fee or at no cost in the future, but this is still under development,” Google said.

Project Shield is built on Google’s PageSpeed service, a frontend tool that offers developers faster loading times. Sites hosted by Project Shield would sit behind PageSpeed’s infrastructure, allowing Google to pool resources if any one site fell victim to an attack. Unless an attack were strong enough to bring down all the PageSpeed sites, it wouldn’t be able to bring down any of them. It’s a similar model to existing DDoS services like Cloudflare, although the more recently launched PageSpeed service is working from a smaller base of sites.

Also Read: GitHub Facing Massive DDoS Attack From China

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Google Being Forced to Reveal Its “Secret Search Algorithm” – The Heart of Google

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Google’s secret search algorithm, the heart of Google, may not be a secret anymore. A law is under consideration in France that would force the search engine giant to reveal its most secret treasure- Google’s search algorithm. This would be one of the toughest supervisory over the internet company. The Financial Times has reported that the French government is passing a law in the French senate that could possibly force Google to publish the details of the method it uses to rank websites and show search results.
It is most likely that France will be passing this law this week and it will give rights to the national telecom regulator to keep an eye on Google’s search algorithm. It should be kept in mind that recently the Wall Street Journal published a report that lashed harsh allegations of FTC’s incompetence to trial Google for its unfair search algorithm.

According to a study, Google handles more than 90% of searches in Europe which is greater than its 68% share in the America.
Catherine Morin-Desailly, chair of the Senate’s culture, education and communication committee said: “The government is well aware of the issues. It’s a question of ensuring fairness. Too many businesses view search engines as bottlenecks. The net is tightening around [Google].”
On the other hand, the European Union has been harsher towards Google and is going to accuse the search engine of illegally favoring its own services. This move could harm Google big time and Google, obviously, isn’t happy.

A spokesperson for Google said: Revealing our algorithms — our intellectual property — would lead to the gaming of our results, which would be a bad experience for users.

FT writes that this move should be seen as a part of growing bitterness for Silicon Valley in the European Union. In the past, American technology companies have faced charges due to tax theft, unfair business tactics and more. One of the most interesting cases was the “right to be forgotten” that required Google to provide a choice to the users to be forgotten.
Google’s search engine algorithm is the heart of Google and it will surely find a way to dodge this law. This algorithm is the key to its dominance and power. It is unclear how Google will react to this regulation in France. As the lost resort, Google could scrap its services from France the way it did in Spain last year as a result of some regulations.
Is Google going to reveal its search algorithm? Tell us in comments!

8 Google Fun Tricks That You’d Love to Know

Internet is Google and Google is Internet for many of us. You use Google everyday but you will not be knowing some tricks, funny searches and games that Google provides hidden behind its vast layers of database.
You will ask me that what is the use of these things, I would simply say that it’s just for fun. It is something you can show to your friends, impress them , show them your geeky side. In fact when I showed these things to one of my friends, he was really impressed with me and asked me how I came to knew about  them. So I thought about posting it online, therefore I tracked down all the tricks and compiled a list of them. Here it goes:

1. Do a barrel roll trick: 

Go to Google.com and simply type in the search box “do a barrel roll” and see the magic . The page will rotate two times.

2. Atari Breakout Trick:




Go to Google images and type “Atari Breakout”. The images will be transformed into blocks and you can play Breakout ,classic arcade game of the 70’s era.

3. Tilt page trick:








Search for “tilt” on Google and see how your page tilts a little .

4. Recursion trick:
 
Search for “recursion” on Google and you will get stuck in an infinite loop much like recursion . Recursion means repeating. Google will show “did you mean recursion?” every time  searching for recursion . It is a fun act of Google for all the geeks who understand what is recursion.
5. Google Gravity:



Type in “Google Gravity ” in their homepage and then click on the “I’ m feeling lucky” button. It will redirect you to one of the fun projects called “Google Gravity”. It is a Chrome Experiment done by Hi-Res. See how gravity bring Google to its knees. You can even search anything.
6. Zerg Rush:







When you type “zerg rush” in Google .The ‘o’ and ‘o’ of Google appears from the top and the right of the Google page and slowly eats up the whole page leaving nothing . Its fun to watch.

7. Bonus: elgoog.im
 

A rotated version of Google.com, kind of google tricks. Provides you with a reversed Google site, known as Google backwards. You can also do surfing on elgoog.im, it’s fun.










8. Google Sky

You can fly through space using Google sky. You can see  celestial objects, including stars, constellations, galaxies, planets and the Earth’s moon via Google sky.

Which was your favorite one? Tell us in comments below
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Now Order Food Straight From Google Search

Google is constantly trying to make life easy for its users. The company does not want to leave any stone unturned in regard to comfort and convenience for Googlites.
You can now Google any restaurant and place your order directly from your Google card results. But the restaurant you are looking for should exist on Seamless, Eat24, GrubHub, BeyondMenu, Delivery.com and MyPizza.com.
This service is only available in the U.S right now but going by the pace at which the technology is growing, we might just see this available in India soon. It is certainly possible to arrive in India with many online food delivery providers such as Foodpanda and Zomato upgrading themselves on various levels.
The service is convenient because its quick and one will get food at a press of  a few buttons. This will  save users phone bill and the exhausting task of repeating one’s order and delivery address to the restaurant executive.
Google Now cards shows you information based on what information you search on Google and what is deems relevant for you. This service is also based on your location.

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AROUND(): A Google Search Operator You May Not Know About

Here is this handy operator developed by Daniel Russell which comes in as a handy trick when you are googling stuff. It’s a handy trick, particularly when you’re looking for combination of search terms (containing two or more search keywords) when one dominates the results, but you’re interested in the relationship between two query terms.
The AROUND(n) operator (used in uppercase, as shown with n = a number) is an undocumented Google search operator that will help you find documents where the distance between two search terms is around ‘n’. The higher the number ‘n’ the less is the proximity between the search words. Here’s an example:
A research query that says “hot springs” will mostly show search results about geographical hot springs (because these two words are maximized in use together than with separation between them).

However, if we modify the query to look like “hot AROUND(5) springs,” you get results where the two terms are written on the page in close proximity.

Also, note also that if Google is unable to find anything within the limit (of ‘n’), it will just do regular ranking of the terms without the AROUND coming into the application.
This operator is particularly helpful in long articles or long text, for example searching Google books. It is also helpful for when searching for quotes, speeches or a song that’s stuck in your head, but you can only think of a few words from it.
Google’s wildcard search operator, represented by Asterisk (hot * springs), may achieve similar results   but with AROUND, you even get to specify the distance between the two search terms.
Note: Do remember to write AROUND in all CAPS, else it won’t work.

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Google Now Lets You Download Your Entire Search History, Here is How To Do This

Google now allows you to export and download your entire search history in no time. Last year Google tested a download feature in search history and it appears that this feature is now available for everyone.
Some of us might think that what is the need of this feature? But let me remind you, no one wants to leave a trail of their Google search behind, and this is an efficient way to check what Google is storing behind you.
This feature was disovered by a blog and it tells that Google now lets your export all your search history to Google Drive and then you can download the searches in a ZIP archive form. The files in the ZIP archive are arranged by year and quarter.

Here is how to download your Google search history, take a look:

How To Download Google Search History?

Step 1.
To download your search history, first you need to sign in to that account then head on over to Google Web History. Now click on the gear button and click on download.

Step 2.
Now Google will display you a warning as your Google search history may have some sensitive information.
It’ll be good if you are not downloading your search archive at public or shared computer. Now click on Create Archive.

Step 3.
Now open your Gmail account and you will find an Email, open it and you can download your Google search history from there.

How To Delete Google Search History?

To delete Google search history again click the gear button and then click on Remove Items and select the time interval for which you want to delete the history.
Warning: Do not download your Google search history at shared or public computer.