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Thursday, November 4, 2010

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Google invites hackers to find flaw for a cash reward!

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 04:20 AM PDT

Do you like to spend time finding hacks and workarounds when it comes to online security? Then Google is looking for you. Google has announced a program where they are inviting people to find vulnerabilities or security flaws with some of their online services. If you find a bug you are assured of a $500 prize. In case it is a severe flaw that is detected then the highest prize money can go up to $3133.7.

Features of Google’s program

Google has made it clear that only Google, YouTube, Blogger and Orkut can be used by experts to find security flaws.
Other services like Picassa, Android and Google Desktop are not in the scope for hackers to claim the bounty.
Just a point of note, that people looking to find security flaws should use their own Google accounts or test accounts but never other peoples accounts either. This is illegal and can invite more than a few troubles.

If you find the vulnerability the Google will give you credit at this page. At the same page you can also go about reporting a bug or flaw that you have come across.

For more details look up Google Only Security page.

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Google Rolls Out NEW AdSense Interface!

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 04:03 AM PDT

After more than 4 years, I guess, Google has finally revamped blogger’s favorite advertising network Google AdSense.

I just logged into Google AdSense to see new interface waiting for me. Below is screenshot of our new Google AdSense dashboard…

(click on image above to see it in full-size)

I will update this post once I am done with exploring new AdSense user-interface. Updates are added below now.

New “My Ads” Section

New ad-units management simply rocks. Its neat, clean, easy to navigate and extremely well-organized. (See screenshot below)

Performance Reports with Graphs!

I hardly get time to check our Google AdSense account, but as far as I remember old AdSense didn’t have any charts or graphs in performance reports section.

New AdSense interface adds graphs to performance reports on similar lines like Google Analytics! Means you can select timeline and configure reporting parameters with simple clicks!

Overall…

In any interface redesign project, generally we need some time to get used to with it. Here I see absolutely zero learning curve. It’s so intuitive that in less than 10 minutes I got comfortable with everything.

Also thank you Google for giving me early access to new adsense interface.