A mysterious site like Google and not a Google site "& # x0262; oogle.com" appears

Google Analytics is a target of spammers, and there is a technique of guiding a person checking what the user came from as if it were the access source and guiding it to the spam site. If the access source is "ɢoogle.com"It seems that you think that" some sort of search phrase caught up on google "and so on, but this"ɢoogle.com"Is"Google.comPlease do not access absolutely because it is not a spam site. "G" is different.

Here's a secret: ɢoogle.com is not google.com - Analytics Edge
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Reporting the existence of "ɢoogle" has developed a software add-on for analysis purposesAnalytics Edge. Just in the US, as a result of the presidential election, there were a few people who used the search phrase "Vote for Trump", but a domain called "ɢoogle.com" appeared in many people's access analysis.

An example is like this. At first glance "secret.ɢoogle.com" is something of Google? I think that it is "secret.google.com" if it is Google.


"ɢ" used here is G in capital "Small Capital" made with the same height as lower case used in Latin letters, and it is assigned to Unicode 0262.


Unicode was thought to be able to use all the characters of the world in a common code, and it is "Basic Latin (0000-007F)" "Hebrew (0590-05FF)" "Hiragana (3040-309F)" "Katakana (30 A 0 - 30 FF)" etc. are allotted for each type. Small capital is allocated to "Speech Symbol Extension", "IPA Extension (International Phonetic Symbol)", "Latin Extended D", but not a single body but "ᴀ, ʙ, ᴄ, ᴅ, ᴇ, ꜰ, ɢ, There are 24 letters available (Q and X are unassigned), which can be used for the following reasons: ɪ, ᴊ, ᴋ, ʟ, ᴍ, ɴ, ᴏ, ᴘ, ʀ, ꜱ, ᴛ, ᴜ, ᴠ, ᴡ, ʏ, ᴢ.

Normally, alphabets, numbers, and hyphens are used for domain names, but it is realized by "using domain names that use more descriptive characters for non-English speaking Internet users"Internationalized domain name (IDN)Thanks to that, you can use domain names that use such symbols.

IDN isNameprepNormalization with,PunycodeAfter conversion, it is transformed into a form that can be handled in the same way as conventional domain names. For example, it is easy to understand as a site using the Japanese domain name, secret society Hawk's nail portal site "Hawk's claw .jpIn case of "xn-- u9 j429 qiq 1 a.jp" will be converted. "Xn--" at the beginning indicates that this domain name is IDN.

It can be said that "ɢoogle.com" exploits this IDN successfully and shows it like Google. Actually accessing "money.get.away.get.a.good.job.with.more.pay.and. (...) buy.me.a.football.team.money.get.back.i.am. Alright.jack.ilovevitaly.com "to the site. With Analytics EdgeI reported this matterWe recommend that you do not access the The Next Web as it may damage your computer.