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Google Trends hacked again

Flipping hackers on the attack
By Nick Farrell
Thu Jul 17 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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omg fliptext

ɹoxxɐɥ os sı bɹo.ʇxǝʇdı1ɟ.ʍʍʍ ǝsnɐɔǝq sǝʎ

posted by : fred, 18 July 2008 Complain about this comment
Flipped Text

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.&#xD;

posted by : Ben Chambers, 18 July 2008 Complain about this comment
Aliens in the machine, no doubt.

not Foujis.&#xD;

posted by : anonymous, 17 July 2008 Complain about this comment
omg hax0rs

ʇxǝʇ dı1ɟ oʇ ʍoɥ ʍouʞ sɹǝʞɔɐɥ ʎ1uo

posted by : omghax0rs, 17 July 2008 Complain about this comment
Heh...

Sense of humour anyway!

posted by : Pez, 17 July 2008 Complain about this comment
Well

I, for one, welcome our omniscient Google overlords

posted by : Ben, 17 July 2008 Complain about this comment
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