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Thursday, January 13, 2005

IE fix damages Google AdSense

I appologies for this off-topic post, but I believe it is something that some of the readers of the Business in Romania Blog that are passionate about search engines and web marketing might find very interesting.

Danish security company Secunia has announced an extremely critical vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and one of the main fixes blocks AdSense from displaying.

Mainly, after installing the fix you will see none of the web space occupied by the Google AdSense, on any website.

This is quite a hit for Google, who relies on a very broad range of websites across the world for carrying its ads.

The same problem happens if you go to Internet Options, Security, Custom Level and set it on high. Or if you just change the Active Scripting option to disable.

I am wondering if the guys that released the IE fix didn't know about this problem. I figure they carry out some testing before releasing something that will affect 89% of the web users throughout the world. I hope they are going to release a patch to fix this bug as soon as possible, otherwise Google might be in trouble.

Thanks to Jenstar for letting me know about this.

Posted by Mihai : 1/13/2005 01:56:00 pm