August 01, 2010

Malware in search results

Study Calls Google ‘King Of Malware’, by Matt McGee, Search Engine Land (Jul 30)

"Google has twice as much malware in its search results as Yahoo, Bing, and Twitter combined. That’s one of the findings in the Barracuda Labs 2010 Midyear Security Report ..."

There is something to be said to avoid searching on a current "hot topic" - or at least to being very careful. Pay close attention to the domain - watch for junk in the url, and to the snippet - look for ones that have good sentences and make sense.

Posted by Gwen at August 1, 2010 06:11 PM