Searching for some information on baby care on Google, I noticed a malware message below a search result. Now, its a serious blot to the image of a baby care manufacturer that proclaims its products to be safe :).
Pun apart, its the fist time I noticed such a message in Google search result. Started around August 2006, they now show a malware warning below the title of the search result which the Google blog says is for, “protecting Google users by showing warnings before they visit dangerous sites.”
In this matter too, Google seems to have taken an attitude akin to its YouTube policy of appeal and we will review your request. In this case a third organization called StopBadware.org. Searching for this particular site in their database reveals that the site has note been evaluated yet nor appealed.
I wonder why Google doesn’t directly report a site to StopBadware if its spiders detect something malicious?
As an aside, there is a plug-in for IE and Firefox called SiteAdvisor, that provide safety ratings for sites (has a compiled list of sites) by displaying different colors (green, yellow, red) next to the search results.
