6/26/2011 Google kills Google Health, PowerMeter services

Google kills Google Health, PowerMeter services

Google announced that it is pulling the plugs on free Health and PowerMeter services that haven't won legions of users.

SAN FRANCISCO: Google announced that it is pulling the plugs on free Health and PowerMeter services that haven't won legions of users.

"We're going to retire two products that didn't catch on the way we would have hoped, but did serve as influential models," Google Health senior product manager Aaron Brown and Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl said in a blog post.

"While they didn't scale as we had hoped, we believe they did highlight the importance of access to information in areas where it?s traditionally been difficult," they said.

A PowerMeter service for tracking home electricity use will shut down on September 16.

Google Health service for storing and selectively sharing personal medical records online will "retire" on January 1 but users will be able to download their information through the following year.

"Both were based on the idea that with more and better information, people can make smarter choices, whether in regard to managing personal health and wellness, or saving money and conserving energy at home," Brown and Weihl said.

Google Health launched in early 2008 and PowerMeter software made its debut in late 2009.


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4/23/2011 Download The Google Best Practices Guide eB | 9.5 MB

Download The Google Best Practices Guide eB | 9.5 MB

Download The Google Best Practices Guide eB | 9.5 MB

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Is Google Public DNS Safe ?

Is Google's new Public DNS server safe?

Google opened their new DNS service to the public. Google's strategy appears to be an attempt to compete with the popular free service called OpenDNS.

In light of the ongoing slaught of DDOS attacks on sites such as Facebook and under 48 hours ago, Twitter, the infosec industry is (and they should be) concerned about Google's DNS vulnerability.

 
So far, as this like below documents, the relatively small amount of research that has been done suggests that Google's port usage is sufficiently randomized so as to reduce the risk of an attack….

My opinion on this though? It most definitely will be some hacker's gold star target due to the fact that Google is getting a lot of press right now. However, you would have to be totally and completely brain dead/flatlining to attempt to crack this honeypot right now. But, hey, that's why we all love dumb criminals - they have high entertainment value and are a great source of humor.