Owning Google for a minute Edited by Polestar2708 at 2016-01-29 21:58
Google has revealed how much it paid a former employee who managed to become the owner of Google.com due to a computer glitch last year. Sanmay Ved purchased the Google.com domain through Google's own Google Domainsservice service in September 2015, for the low price of $12 (£8.35). He initially thought the listing was an error, but was surprised when his payment went through and he got a confirmation email saying he was now the owner of the world's most visited domain. Google reveals how much it paid man who briefly owned Google.com Google offered Sanmay Ved a hefty reward for spotting a glitch that allowed him to buy Google.com for $12 He initially thought the listing was an error, but was surprised when his payment went through and he got a confirmation email saying he was now the owner of the world's most visited domain. After the incident, Google contacted Ved and offered him a cash reward in exchange for spotting the unusual security error. Neither Google nor Ved ever said what the reward was, but the company has now revealed the sum in a post on their online security blog. Ved's initial reward was $6,006.13, a figure which looks a little like the world 'google' if you squint. After learning that Ved was donating his reward to an Indian education charity, Google doubled the amount - making his total reward $12,012.26 (£8,400). Google regularly gives financial rewards to computer researchers who alert them to bugs or errors in their services - in the blog post, they revealed that they paid out over $2 million (£1.4 million) to more than 300 security tipsters in 2015 alone. Researcher Tomasz Bojarski was the most prolific bug-finder of 2015, spotting 70 bugs in Google throughout the year. One of these bugs, ironically, was found in the web form where users can report security flaws. Source : The Independent (UK) | |
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haha... Lucky man...
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Little old news.. But thanks for giving the exact figures of how much he was rewarded
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Let us start bugging Google
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viki4vikram replied at 2016-01-29 22:38 Yes the news is old... But figures have been revealed now! | |
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Pulak replied at 2016-01-29 22:40 I don't think that would be easy dada!! | |
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lucy man
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