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Search Engine Optimization Poisoning Way Up In '10
alphadogg writes "Cybercrooks continue to abuse the Web, boosting their ability to produce what's called search engine optimization poisoning so that individuals making use of search engines such as Google's increasingly are ending up with choices that are dangerous malware-laden URL links.
Some 22.4% of Google searches done since June produced malicious URLs, typically leading to fake antivirus sites or malware-laden downloads as part of the top 100 search results, according to the Websense 2010 Threat Report published Tuesday. That's in comparison to 13.7% of Google searches having that outcome in the latter half of 2009, says Patrik Runald, Websense senior manager of security research."
#1: its in asp.net, not asp (big difference)
#2: asp.net doesn't have a dependency on IE. Its browser agnostic (and thus like any other environment used for web development, it works BETTER if you're not using IE)
#3: the video is in Flash using a pretty standard Flash player that has nothing to do with asp.net.
#4: it works just fine in non-IE browsers (I'm using Chrome)
Just figured I'd clear that up.
Just yesterday I wanted to download VLC media player. Top link on Bing: repackaged with junk seach engine and crapware newsletters. Top link on Google: the home site which linked to the sourceforge download. Of course Microsoft could be doing that on purpose for Open Source software...
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I'm not sure if this is relevant - but perhaps you should be using google Scholar for your academic research. It's possible that they segregrated what information you're looking for into that section.
But then again, maybe not - I don't know what kind of research you do (and I've never had a problem with springboarding with a Wikipedia article...)
It's not just you. I remember when I first started using google and how amazingly appropriate its results were if you knew the right search terms. Now days I'm surprised more that it does so poorly on what seems like straightforward searches.
Why is this? SEO must be part. But I also know if anything I'm looking for is even slightly related to a product, forget it, you get pages and pages of shopping results. I too, have to result on my memory and knowledge of where to look for certain things more and more.
No, it's not 22% of search results, but 22% of searches made which contain a malicious URL somewhere in the top 100 search results. Like anyone goes all the way through to 100 results.
Some 22.4% of Google searches done since June produced malicious URLs, typically leading to fake antivirus sites or malware-laden downloads as part of the top 100 search results
Fear mongering. That is all.
I use DuckDuckGo, which is built on top of Yahoo's stuff. It returns far fewer results than Google, and at the end it has a link to try using Google instead. I've clicked on this a few times and as far as I can tell the only difference is that Google pads the results with a few thousand irrelevant pages. I've never clicked on the link and found that Google actually provides a useful response. I think I'd actually prefer a search engine to tell me it couldn't find anything than to give me 100 pages that I start clicking through in the hope that maybe there's a relevant result buried somewhere in the middle.
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As someone who is getting into SEO and Internet Marketing, I can tell you that there was a major change in the last 2-3 weeks that has lots of big names in that industry reeling.
Google makes major updates to their PageRank formula about quarterly, from what I can see.
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