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 ...
Threat Post

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: Do Not Use Commas, Brackets Or Non-Standard URL Encoding For Faceted Navigation

Google's John Mueller confirmed that the search company's 2014 guidance with faceted navigation remains true today - do not use non-standard URL encoding. That means do not use commas, brackets or ...
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 ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

#InfosecurityOnline: Beware of Malicious URLs and Rogue Redirects

Attackers are using techniques to alter URLs and send victims to rogue and potentially malicious domains. Speaking at the Infosecurity Online event, Javvad Malik, security advocate at KnowBe4 ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft Phishing Attack Uses Google Redirects to Evade Detection

A new phishing campaign uses Google search query redirects to send potential victims to a phishing landing page designed to collect Microsoft Office 365 credentials via encoded URLs. The phishers ...