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Filmmaker Jim Killeen is the producer of a new documentary film called Google Me.
Most people have googled their names, but how many people go to the extreme of actually meeting their “google twins”?
That’s the whole idea behind Google Me.
In the video below News.com reporter Kara Tsuboi interviews Jim Killeen and learns about the six other Jim Killeens he’s met through the Google search engine.
The UK’s Times Online is reporting that the CIA is using servers equipped with Google search engine technology to share information gathered on suspects.
US government agencies like the National Security Agency have purchased servers loaded with Google search technology to process information gathered by their network of spies around the world.
Google also provides the search engine technologoy for a Wikipedia-style site, called Intellipedia, where agents can post intelligence information about their targets that can be accessed and modified by other intelligence professionals.
Intellipedia allows agents to post intelligence information to a secured wiki forum that other spies can read, edit, and tag like other Web 2.0 collaboration sites.
Thus far 37,000 intelligence professionals have created accounts on Intellipedia, and the database now contains 35,000 articles.
Intellipedia is hosted by the director of national intelligence, Mike McConnell, and is available only to the CIA, the FBI, the National Security Agency, and other intelligence departments.
Source: Times Online
“Google hacking” is a term used to describe the use of specialized Google search queries along with advanced Google operators to find network security holes on websites and computer networks as well as personal information on people that the Google search engine has indexed. The webmasters and IT professionals that overlook these security vulnerabilities and exposed personal information, like names and passwords, allowing Google to index the information and make it available in search engine results are typically referred to as “Googledorks”
Johnny Long, author of Google Hacking for Penetration Testers volumes 1 and 2, is one of the foremost experts on hacking the Google search engine to find information on people and computer networks. He runs an online database of Google hack examples that can be used by both White Hat Hackers ( good hackers ); Black Hat Hackers ( malicious hackers ) as well as computer forensics professionals to find sensitive information through various Google searches.
Google searches can reveal a goldmine of sensitive personal and network information, including: network security vulnerabilities; error messages that reveal too much personal and network information; files that contain sensitive information about people; username and password files; login pages; sensitive directories; personal online shopping and ecommerce information; networked devices, like printers and video cameras; vulnerable files and web servers.
If you want to find out just how much information Google has indexed about you or your computer network, start practicing some of the the Google searches and advanced operators, using search terms that apply to you, family, friends or your own computer network.
You can access the Google hacks database @ ihackstuff.com
Google Maps has published this quick and informative YouTube.com video tutorial to help users learn some of the handy ways you can use their “Street View” feature to explore 360 degree street level images of major US cities.
Google has produced the following YouTube.com video clip to show people how to use their free 411 directory assistance service ( 1-800-GOOG-411 ) and explain its unique features.
Google is out to capture photo and video recordings of major US cities and their roaming Chevy Cobalt camera cars, equipped with Ladybug2 Sperical Cameras, are being spotted all over the United States.
Here are some interesting blog posts from gizmodo.com that discuss the Google Streetview project:
This Alpena News article discusses the anatomy of a Google people search –
OK, so that’s the fun part of “Googling.” Obviously, when I Google, most of the time it is related to work here at the newspaper. Take for instance Target Alpena’s new chief economic development officer Lee Shirey. Curious about the new hire and wanting to learn more, naturally I “Googled” his name.
Sure enough, Shirey has quite a few entries. From the Google search I could read some of his past reports and research, read minutes from Sault Ste. Marie Downtown Development Authority meetings and visit that DDA’s official Web site to learn more about his accomplishments while there — such as securing a Cool Cities designation for that community.
Another new interesting aspect to the internet are the popularity of personal biography sites such as “My Space” and Shirey can be found mentioned in some of that area as well.
As might be expected, he enjoys many of the same things like most of us do like hockey, the outdoors and being active in the community.
He also has an interesting hobby — paranormal investigation. After a little more “Googling” I learned he is a member of the Upper Peninsula Paranormal Research Society — a group dedicated to researching paranormal events.
Obviously this is a man with a wide range of interests and not just your ordinary CEO.
This week Target Alpena answered for the public the question of “Who you going call?”
It now seems only natural the answer: Lee Shirey.
Here is the link to the Professional Guide to Google Searches, Part II:
Want to make your people searches on Google more accurate? Take a look at this professional Google search guide, published by Our-Picks.com —
The Observer reports on a Google smart phone & PDA that will hopefully make mobile web search and local search as natural and efficient as using a desktop or laptop computer –
Google is on the move. The internet giant has held talks with Orange, the mobile phone operator, about a multi-billion-dollar partnership to create a ‘Google phone’ which makes it easy to search the web wherever you are.
The collaboration between two of the most powerful brands in technology is seen as a potential catalyst for making internet use of mobile phones as natural as on desktop computers and laptops.
Executives from Orange flew to Silicon Valley in California for a meeting at Google’s headquarters, or ‘Googleplex’, to hold preliminary discussions about a joint deal. The companies believe that they have an affinity as brands that are perceived as both ‘positive’ and ‘innovative’.
Their plans centre on a branded Google phone, which would probably also carry Orange’s logo. The device would not be revolutionary: manufactured by HTC, a Taiwanese firm specialising in smart phones and Personal Data Assistants (PDAs), it might have a screen similar to a video iPod. But it would have built-in Google software which would dramatically improve on the slow and cumbersome experience of surfing the web from a mobile handset.
A source close to the talks told The Observer: ‘Google are software experts and are doing some amazing work compressing data so that the mobile user gets a much better experience. They don’t know so much about mobiles, but they are eager to learn from Orange’s years of experience.’
Among the potential benefits are location-based searches: aware of your handset’s geographical position, Google could offer a tailored list of local cinemas, restaurants and other amenities, and maps and images from Google Earth. It is believed that the Google phone would not go on sale before 2008.
Source: The future for Orange could soon be Google in your pocket
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