Google Trends hacked again
Flipping hackers on the attack
Thursday, 17 July 2008, 09:14
SEARCH ENGINE Google has had its Hot Trends system hacked for the second time in seven days.
Last week a swastika appeared on Google Trends as a top queried term. It was removed and a spokesGoogle claimed that a link on a popular Internet bulletin board, 4Chan, was to blame.
Last night the most queried term on Google Trends was no longer a Swastika, it was the statement “ǝlƃooƃ noʎ ʞɔnɟ”.
So far no one has worked out how it could happen. Google claims the Hot Trends list is automatically generated by machines and algorithms that detect hot or breaking queries.
But flipped text seems to imply that there is a hacker involved rather than just people playing the system. µ
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I, for one, welcome our omniscient Google overlords
Sense of humour anyway!
ʇxǝʇ dı1ɟ oʇ ʍoɥ ʍouʞ sɹǝʞɔɐɥ ʎ1uo
not Foujis.
Flipped text in Google searches is nothing new - just insert a special character (I forget the code for it, but it's input using ALT-### format). This is just some guy gaming the system, same as always, and not Google being hacked.
ɹoxxɐɥ os sı bɹo.ʇxǝʇdı1ɟ.ʍʍʍ ǝsnɐɔǝq sǝʎ