Google Is The New Microsoft

First, they diversified into every online area possible. Then they slapped down anyone who dared monetize their sites or blogs with something other than their own Adsense program. Recently, they began their maneuver to knock Wikipedia from the top of their search results by rolling out Knols, which is an attempt to get US to provide content so they can make more money by keeping all of us within Google’s safe little play yard.

And now? Following right along in Microsoft’s footprints, Google’s very own Adsense has been compromised by a Trojan. BitDefender is calling this Trojan.Qhost.WU and explains that it redirects calls meant for Google to a different server which then displays ads from someone other than Google. For webmasters, this means we can lose money. For visitors to our sites, this means that clicking on one of these ads can very likely infect your computer or otherwise compromise your security, which is likely since this is all being done with malicious code.

I realize that some think I’m crazy for making a connection between Google’s evil and Microsoft’s evil. This latest breaking news is just one more similarity. Google is now being targeted, just as Microsoft has been in the past. I wonder if this will be enough to open the eyes of Matt Cutts and his Googly crew.

Probably not.