. GOOGLE NEWS HACKED . Apparently, Google News started serving ads on Feb. 4, 2009 - http://friendfeed.com/e/a83d1939-e7da-4d1d-ae19-98d13f099c0a/ I searched Google News - The FIRST Google ad on the right hand side, under "Sponsored Links", said - I took a screenshot. It looks like a blue "Aladdin from the lamp". I clicked on the ad, and was redirected to - http://www.1shubiz1.com/unique/pdf.php?f=all which is a page in the Russian language. I took a screenshot of this also. Looks like Google News has been hacked. NOBODY is safe, these days. EDIT: Neither one of those links above work the same as the first time I clicked on them. Lots of shifty stuff going on here. Glad I took screenshots. I would paste the screen shots here, but there is no way to do it directly (like avatars). Only a link from a website can be used. I do not have an appropriate site to post them from. . .
Search Engine Roundtable picked up on this story, and posted a screen shot - http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/019427.html Definitely a hack, apparently timed to coincide with President's Day. Some hackers lack good taste, and seek shock value only. I don't think we are going to see a lot of this - Google will squash it ASAP. "Just because you CAN do something, doesn't mean that you SHOULD!" I guess it is an ego thing. "Look what I can do!" . .