Archive for April 1st, 2008
Swimming with the fishies
April 1st, 2008
Some of you may have come across Google’s malware warning (Warning: this site may damage your computer). It’s explained here and here.
I was interested to see that they have identified the site of Irish State agency Bord Iascaigh Mhara (Sea Fisheries Board) as such (www.bim.ie): see the image below. I’ve let BIM know about this and hopefully it’s nothing serious. Interesting to see Google’s approach in action, though.
I mentioned this before in a rambling post here. It’s great to link to Ethan Zuckerman so I’ll do it again as I did in that post: read this (still) great post. The related questions of defamation and search engine immunity are both fascinating.
Looking at the code of www.bim.ie, nothing jumps out at me as (sorry) fishy - though perhaps the techies out there might want to look too and see if they spot anything unusual? Wisdom of the crowds and all that 
