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Phish Uses Google’s URL Decoding to Swim Past Defenses

Percentage-based URL encoding plus Google domain trickery is helping malicious emails to evade filters. A phishing campaign that takes advantage of Google’s ability to decode non-ASCII URL data on the ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Google Does Crawl & Index UTF-8 Encoded URLs

A Google Groups thread asks if Google can crawl and index UTF-8 encoded URLs. The quick answer is yes, Google can crawl and index these URLs. Google's JohnMu provided a link to the Google search ...
Ars Technica

Encoding characters in urls

I am trying to figure out how IE determines what characters to encode in a URL. <BR>Ex. If I do a search on Google for 2:00 it becomes &q=2%3A00<BR><BR>How does Internet Explorer figure out to use %3A ...
TechCrunch

Encoding.com’s Vid.ly Integrates With FreeWheel To Provide Monetization Of Universal, Cross-Platform Video URLs

Cloud encoding vendor Encoding.com launched Vid.ly a couple of years ago to provide video creators with a way to publish a single universal video URL and then have that content accessible on any ...
Search Engine Land

Google updates its URL structure best practices document with added examples

Google has updated its URL structure best practices SEO documentation to add new examples, while also making significant changes to the document’s structure. Google made it clear that no changes were ...