• Spotted a Bug in Google? Report and get Paid!

    Spotted a Bug in Google? Report and get Paid!

    Rohan Naravane, Nov 03, 2010 1040 hrs IST

    Google offering users cash for spotting and notifying security loopholes in many of their products

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In January, Google had started offering money to people who report bugs in their Chromium project (which bears the popular Chrome browser as fruit). They're now expanding this scheme to their other popular products like YouTube, Blogger, Orkut apart from Google.com. Android, Picasa or Google Desktop don't fall under it yet, but Google said they might expand it to these too in the future. So how much do you get? It depends upon the intensity of the bug found - it could be anywhere between $500 to $3100 (Rs. 22,182 to Rs. 1,37,533). Not bad eh?

The flaws have could range from XSS, server-side code execution, cross-site scripting and bypass of authorization to any serious bug that affects the confidentiality or integrity of user data. Other than the money, those uncovering these cracks will also get their name up on the credits page. You can go the same page to report any bug. Lastly, if you choose to donate your bounty as charity then Google pledges to double whatever you've earned.  

The incentive program sounds like a great idea for Google to strengthen the vulnerabilities of their products. Plus, hard cash is any day better than giving away something like an Android phone maybe - not everybody wants one.

Source: PGMag.com

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Bala Chandra
,trivandrum, on Nov 20, 2011 01:38 AM
Bala-Trivandrum: Title:The bug in the Google India Search Engine when clicked on the Languages Description:When the User clicks on the different languages of Google India,giving words like "ভারত".Which makes user some confusion.These i have noticed as by following the below steps Step 1: Click on the list of languages,like "Hindi" Step 2: Then Google India with hindi language is displayed.But below that I have noticed that"ভারত" is displayed in the languages list. Step 3: Then clicked on"ভারত" and most of the areas in the Google search page was able to see "ভারত" these. Step 4: Then select that Google ভারত giving any characters and cicked on search. Step 5: Then was able to see these "ভারত "in the search list of entire page. These might be Bug
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Tanu Garg
,Gurgaon, on Sep 21, 2011 02:57 PM
I found a bug on Google."You are invite to join Google+" arrow image is showing on browser IE 8 but not on FF 3.6. Date: 21st Sep 2011 Time: 2.40 pm
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