If you recall my post from Nov. 20, the ComputerWorld article mentioned that scammers had figured out a way for their malicious sites to rise to the top of Google searches. Well, my heros at Google have put a stop to that evil infiltration of my online existence!
ComputerWorld reported yesterday that:
"November 28, 2007 (Computerworld) — Google Inc. has purged its index of the thousands of malware sites that wormed their way into results lists for hundreds of legitimate search phrases, researchers confirmed today.
"They look gone to us," said Alex Eckelberry, the CEO of Sunbelt Software Distribution Inc., the company that broke the news Monday of a massive, coordinated campaign by attackers to spread malware through search results on Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live Search and other sites."
Please read the article for more information.
In any event, you still need to be careful. While your most successful searches will usually give you what you want within the first 10 - 20 hits, you still need to be wary of hits returned with odd URLs that just don’t seem like they really match what you were looking for. Learn to decipher the URLs in the search results. If you are searching for a book, you’d expect that the URLs returned in a search would relate in some way to books: www.amazon.com; www.booksellers.blah; libraries, publishers, etc…. but if the URL does not seem to fit in the group you may want to skip that result.
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