Quick February hits

The website for this year’s Superbowl stadium, www.dolphinstadium.com, was recently hacked so that visitors to that page with unpatched Windows computers downloaded a keylogger and malware that allows full backdoor control. It’s fixed now, but it’s a good idea to make sure whatever computer you use to browse is patched. As a webmaster, hacked sites are shaping up to be an issue that everyone will have to be savvy about. Try to make sure your servers are patched and that you have backups.
Philipp Lenssen had a good post with his predictions for future generations of search. Among the predictions are
- combining data sources from web pages to satellite imagery to speech-to-text transcriptions
- personalization that works really well
- better results from deeper AI
Philipp was proven prescient a couple hours later, when Google mentioned that it will provide personalized search results for signed-in users. You can always sign out to get the […]

Published by Matt Cutts
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