Google Blocks co.cc From Search Results

tekgoblin writes "Google has taken the attack on malware into its own hands today as it blocks the entire co.cc subdomain. The block removed about 11 million results from the Google search index which should dramatically clean up much malware in search results."

Comments

Re:Well

[kai_hiwatari]

.co.cc is not an officially recognized second level domain. It is just sub-domains given out by a Korean company that owns the domain http://co.cc/ So, Google is actually removing just one domain with 11 million sub-domains. (source http://digitizor.com/2011/07/06/google-removes-cc-domains/ )

Re:Continue, please!

[Seumas]

Actually, it looks like they've raised the limit to 500 domains. That's a lot more reasonable. There's more than 50 that I need to block for a better experience, but I probably couldn't come up with near 500 regular offenders.

Link to the original article from google

[timid3000]

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2011/06/protecting-users-from-malware-hosted-on.html

Re:Another parasitic linkspamming blogger

[perryizgr8]

nope the original story is on google's blog: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2011/06/protecting-users-from-malware-hosted-on.html