Google Search Malware Glitch
Google, the leading search engine has hit a glitch, a very crippling glitch that at the time of this post is labeling every single website on the internet as malware. Twitter, blogs, forums and other online gathering spots are alive with talk of the Google glitch with search engine traffic from Google now non existent as the problem affects, every country, every OS and every browser.
Even the Google domain is being labeled as Malware
Edit: - As quickly as how it started the glitch has ended. Google search results are no longer labeling all results as malware and the buzz is begining to subside.
Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 Ready
A near-final version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 was made available for download today. The free browser is only available for users of Windows Vista, Windows Server and Windows XP with Service Pack 2 installed. Microsoft has been steadily improving Internet Explorer 8 which has been in development for a few years with Beta 1 and 2 versions of the browser being released in March and August last year respectively.
Although still the most dominant web browser Internet Explorer has seen it’s market share slowly being chipped away by Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox web browser and with Google’s recent and swift entry into the market with Chrome. Read more
Internet Population and Top 15 Internet Countries
Internet usage measurement and marketing service providers ComScore recently reported that total global Internet users aged 15 and older who access the internet from home and work computers surpassed 1 billion for the first time in December 2008 based on data accumulated by them.
Top 15 countries ranked by Internet population:
- China: 179.7 million
- United States: 163.3 million
- Japan: 60.0 million
- Germany: 37.0 million
- United Kingdom: 36.7 million
- France: 34.0 million
- India: 32.1 million
- Russia: 29.0 million
- Brazil: 27.7 million
- South Korea: 27.3 million
- Canada: 21.8 million
- Italy: 20.8 million
- Spain: 17.9 million
- Mexico: 12.5 million
- Netherlands: 11.8 million
