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Bing Tops Google At Finding Malware

Posted by timothy on from the sometimes-that's-just-what-you-want-to-find dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "According to an 18-month study from German independent testing lab AV-Test, searches on Bing returned five times more links to malicious websites than Google searches. The study looked at nearly 40 million websites provided by seven different search engines. About 10 million results came from Bing and another 10 million from Google. 13 million sites were provided by the Russian service Yandex, with the rest coming from Blekko, Faroo, Teoma and Baidu respectively. Of these 40 million sites, AV-Test found 5,000 pieces of malware—and admittedly small percentage of websites."

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  1. So Google's better, right? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't want my searches returning malware links.
    Especially since they're incompatible with my OS.

    1. Re:So Google's better, right? by BrokenHalo · · Score: 4, Funny

      So Google's better, right?

      No, Bing is better. At finding malicious sites.

      I always knew it must be good for something...

    2. Re:So Google's better, right? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      No, Bing is better. At finding malicious sites.

      And if you're running Windows, Bing and Desktop Search show the same results.

  2. Microsoft marketing responds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    We're number one!!! We're number one!!!

  3. Re:Well to be fair by Capt.DrumkenBum · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I think about it logically.
    If I were the type of scum sucking vermin who would produce malware, I would tend to target the less technically savvy computer users. What search engine would such a person be likely to use? Whatever one IE points to by default.
    Bing.

    My apologies to any scum sucking vermin who might be reading this. I am truly sorry for comparing you to malware writers.

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    If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
  4. Re:I just Topped Bing At Finding Malware! by Capt.DrumkenBum · · Score: 3, Funny

    I am pretty sure my IT department already installed your software.

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    If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
  5. Re:Well to be fair by Spy+Handler · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bing's servers run on Windows

    Google's servers run on *Nix

    Of course Bing is going to find more malware!

  6. Re:At least they are leading in something by Bobfrankly1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    How soon until they join the ranks of Digital, Wang, Novell, etc.

    Wait, you released a Digital Novel about my Wang?

    Technically it was a "short story".


    Darth Vader voice: All too easy...

  7. Re:Deception by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Bing allows you the personal liberty to ruin your pc if you so choose to do so, not like that nanny state loving google.

  8. Re:Well to be fair by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bing
    Is
    Not
    Google

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    Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.