Google Search Malware Detector

INILAH.COM, Jakarta – Google Search can detect malware from existing data on your Windows computer.

Google can now detect virus from the existing data in a computer. As written in the article title GoogleBlog Using data to protect people from malware,

Google recently said they found the search traffic that is not unusual during routine monitoring at the Google data centers.

After working with a number of Internet security experts, Google found that computers that behave that way was infected with malicious software or malware. Matt Cutts of Google says this happens only on Windows computers.

So Google made the detection system, and if the computer detected bervirus, when opening Google Search, above the search box will pop up a yellow warning bar, saying Your Computer Appears to be infected.

Malware infected computer it makes sending traffic to Google through a proxy. Google hopes this notification can help remind people to update the antivirus.

Google has Launched a New Version of Android Market

Google has launched a new version of Android Market, the digital store that provides the Android phone users more than 100,000 applications and games.

“You would be pleased to discover that we have revised Android Market, in order to make it faster, easier and more enjoyable for you to discover applications, movies and books. We have created a larger space for posting the most interesting content of the week in the home page. Several top-charts have been added, with newer and more relevant items and now it is easier to go through the charts while navigating the stores”, explained Google in an official blog post.

The improvement of the Android application store is due to some complains the users have made towards the previous versions. Despite being the leader in the online search segment, Google has initially created a heavyish interface for the application store.

In addition, Android Market has a worthy opponent in the Amazon application store dedicated to the Android platform, which has succeeded in convincing several publishers to launch applications exclusively for the Amazon portfolio.

Therefore, Google has some catch up to do in order to remain relevant on his own mobile platform. We shall see if the redesign of the store will succeed in attracting the users.

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Google+ has its minuses

Google is now swinging open the gates to Google+, its invite-only social network, in the hopes that the company’s considerable worldwide clout will help it unseat Facebook. The fledgling social network is doing much right, like hosting interactive videoconferencing “hangouts,” considering privacy measures (even if belatedly), and offering the ability to edit posts. However, some decisions and omissions leave us a little cold.

To be fair, Google+ is only weeks old and is still generating its user base from among the hundreds of millions of Google account holders. While we don’t expect absolute perfection in a first-generation Google product any more than we would from other software vendors, a variety of us CNET editors using Google+ have pinpointed some flaws and missing links over the last few weeks; we’ve aggregated our strongest complaints here.

Circles setup
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again. Parsing contacts into circles is more labor-intensive the more contacts you have, and the setup interface feels clunky. Like you, we have hundreds of contacts apiece, but in the circle interface, only 29 are visible at a time by default. You can drag the selection area down to reveal additional rows of potential contacts, which helps, though the proceeding still amounts to what is essentially a one-by-one drag-and-drop operation. It’s the same tedium when it comes to sorting an influx of contacts into circles.

In addition to the default contact view (pictured above), Google could consider a text-only list for assigning buddies by the batch. We had also hoped Google+ would be smarter about flagging and consolidating contacts with multiple e-mail addresses and entries.

Management
Management options in general are a little sparse. For example, it’d be nice to reorder your circles in the Stream menu according to which ones you deem the most important.

In addition to choosing which circles of people you’d like to message, we’d also like to choose circles to exclude from a post, even if you choose the Public option. The post would still be visible to everyone who looked for it, but the broadcast itself wouldn’t surface in the stream for every one of your groups.

Public circles
An additional approach to Google+ circles could help alleviate the sticky issue we CNET folk have with spamming people in our lives who don’t follow our tech stories while we’re trying to reach the people who do. Google+ could let people subscribe to a circle that the owner wishes to make public–for instance, a special-interest circle like tech, photography, motorcycles, music, or cooking. Not only would you reach your chosen circles, you’d also be able to reach total strangers who join the group of their own volition. Again, if you took that post public instead, your uninterested followers and friends would have to ignore or “mute” those conversation threads. Twitter has a similar ability to create and curate lists. Admittedly, some privacy implications could present hurdles.

Google’s Clinton Says Google + Great Success Already

Google launched their own social network as a limited beta a week ago and named it Google + and personally, I love it.

One thing Google downplayed with the social network was friend numbers and followers, something really important on Twitter and less important on Facebook.

Google engineer, DeWitt Clinton, talked a bit about how he has seen the growth of Google + and how he is surprised by how fast things have evolved on the network, even within the limited test.

Here is a copy of what he wrote on his Google + Post:

I’m not a big fan of numbers games—they’re a signal, but at best a fungible one, and always highly dependent on external factors—but perhaps worth noting in passing (and then moving on) that by sometime later today I’ll have added more people to circles, and have been added to more circles, on Google+ than I have friends or followers on Buzz, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, or any other network, and we’re not yet a full week into limited field trial. I had expected this to happen eventually, but certainly not so soon.