Monday, July 25, 2011

Google Bakes Malware Warnings into Search Results

It is good to see Google doing some due diligence when it comes to malware and virus detection. Importantly, more computer infections spread websites at the top of searches. Google's search spam team works really hard spammers from game the search algorithm. Searchers for “insurance”, “loans”, “mortgage”, “attorney”, “credit”, and “lawyer” are filled sites designed to scam unwitting people.

Last week Google Engeneers discovered some search traffic was being rerouted through proxies, likely as part of a PPC scam. When Google detects this, they are placing a large warning box at the top of search results to warn people that their is malware trying to jack links.

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