Welcome to Googleholic - your bi-weekly fix of everything Google!
This edition covers:
- Inline language translations
- Create a static Google Map
- Hacker group releases tool to find site exploits via Google
While Google Translate is hardly perfect, but when trying to read or respond to a web page written in another language, it can be invaluable. Although the Google Toolbar has translation services built-in, the options for selective translation are pretty limited. Enter gTranslate, a Firefox plugin (note, this plugin is NOT compatible with Firefox 3 beta) that allows for selective translation in any of the language pairs offered by Google Translate. Simply select the text and right click and the translation will appear in a contextual menu. If the passage is too long to fit in the window, clicking on it will open the full translation in a new tab. It also supports translating text boxes on the fly. [via Google Operating System]
Create a static Google Map
As cool as the interactive Google maps are, there are situations where embedding javascript isn't always ideal. In the past, if you wanted to send a "static" Google map to someone via e-mail, you had to take a screen capture from your browser and then attach the corresponding image. Those days are over. Google has just released launched a new Static Maps API, making it easy to create fast-loading static maps that can then be e-mailed or displayed on a web page, all without the need for JavaScript. The Static Maps API can be combined with the JavaScript API if you want to make the map interactive when someone rolls over or clicks the map on your webpage. [via Google Lat Long Blog]
Hacker group releases tool to find site exploits via Google
Hacking group Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) has released the Goolag scanner and Open Source tool designed to search for website vulnerabilities using automated Google search queries. While the concept of "Google hacking" is hardly new, but this kind of automated search is, according to the cDc, "...like Google hacking on steroids." The tool is open-source and available for Windows. Although aimed at IT administrators to help check their own sites for vulnerabilities, there will undoubtedly be users who attempt to use the tool for malicious purposes. While the cDc concedes this, they point out that excessive Google queries may end up getting the user's IP banned from Google. [via ComputerWorld]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
2-22-2008 @ 9:08PM
lakiolen said...
Via link for the Static API is broken.
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2-23-2008 @ 3:04AM
Christina Warren said...
Thanks! It's fixed:)
2-23-2008 @ 8:32AM
Lalo said...
great post.
researching hacks via google as a project
http://www.tech-exposed.com
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2-23-2008 @ 3:04PM
Dwight Stegall said...
In case you would get banned at Google you can easily get around it by searching Google anonymously with http://www.googlonymous.com/
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2-23-2008 @ 7:42PM
whiskey said...
The biggest plus for Goolag scanner is that it's installer features GLADOS!!!
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