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Google Hacking
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04.15.10Always question the numbersRight, quick post today....I've got some heinous carpal tunnel going on...the result of marathon hacking sessions, so I'm _supposed_ to be taking it easy.... Google Webmaster Tools has released some new data for all you data-junkies to get your fix on. Specifically, they're now showing impression numbers and click-through percentages for organic search queries. Rad right? It looks that way on the surface...but the good folks on Dave Naylor's team have done a bit of research into the numbers and what they're calling the 'Google Gap'. Read on http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/google-webmaster-tools-2.html, and remember to always question the numbers. Big thanks Dave's team for writing this ...
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04.30.09Updated Google Analytics Keyword ExtractorOK, I'll admit, my last post was downright shameful... The code was poorly presented, and poorly formatted. It wasn't at ALL my normal caliber of work, so I went ahead and rewrote the concept into a tighter little wrapper. I am using the Gattica gem to interact with the Google Analytics API. This little script provides a wrapper around the gem that easily allows you to extract your sites organic keywords and sort them based on the number of unique entrances to your site via each keyword.
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04.22.09Using the Google Analytics API with Ruby, Open-Uri & HpricotYou may or may not have heard that Google has finally opened up their Analytics API to the public. You can read Googles official statement here. I thought I'd show you all a quick crash introduction on how you can access the API using Ruby. The following code uses Open-Uri to access the API and Hpricot to parse the response. In this example, we're going to authenticate with the API, and then we're going to use it to extract all the keywords (organic and paid) which have brought visitors to our site within the past year (limited to 100 keywords max) NB: sorry ...
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10.03.08Google2001 search for finding domainsSo, I've been messing around a bit with Googles 2001 search (http://www.google.com/search2001.html) and I've found some great old domains with it. I got the idea when I found some domains that ranked for various viagra search terms back in 2001 that are now unregistered. They are old, plus have backlinks, which is a double bonus. We all know how much Google loves old domains! Anyways, I created a small script that goes through the 2001 SERPs and pulls each domain into a list that is run through a whois search to see if it's available. In under and hour I found ...
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10.31.07Google catches onto Google HackingI came across this query today that ostensibly returns database usernames and passwords. Check it out Notice how every single entry says "...Password Obscured..." Interesting eh? Google has finally caught onto the fact that people have been leveraging their index to find exploitable systems. As most of you know, the practice of using Google to find exploitable systems has been going on for a long long LONG time, but this is the first time I have seen Google react to the problem. I wonder, does this means we are soon going to see google restricting certain wildcard searches? I ...
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