It
seems like the world of search is getting a bit safer after all.
SiteAdvisor has reported that search engines linked to 12% fewer sites that showed risky content, as deemed by McAfee. The report also found that search results by Google, AOL and Ask are far less likely to contain risky leads like MSN and Yahoo!. Some surprising results, though, were that paid results in search engines were actually responsible for linking out to 8% of risky content. McAfee SiteAdvisor used numbers and searches from a May 2006 survey, and completed the same search last month and found that AOL took the safest honors, while Ask showed the biggest improvements.
Tags: aol, ask, google, mcafee, microsoft, search, search engine, search results, SearchEngine, SearchResults, yahoo
Facebook Plunges Again
Tumblr 101: Tips And Tricks To Get Started
Comments
3
Subscribe to commentsalfred chewJan 24th 2007 4:44AM
A very promising improvement!
RileyDec 12th 2006 12:19PM
This would be a nice improvment. There are so many junk sites and so much spam its out of control. I am glad to see something is being done in someway.
TonyDec 12th 2006 12:58PM
Google is doing something interesting--they'll still return results for sites with dangerous content, but now they'll show a warning page before taking you to the site.
Do this: go to google and search for "pictures of animals". Then, click the first link that shows up. You'll be taken to this warning page:
http://www.google.com/interstitial?url=http://www.bushveld.co.za/
(You can click that link, but DON'T click through to the site)
A couple of weeks ago the site it's protecting you from infected one of my test computers with malware, bypassing Firefox and Windows Defender security.