Bing Tops Google At Finding Malware

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."

Comments

So Google's better, right?

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:Well to be fair

[Capt.DrumkenBum]

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.

Re:Well to be fair

[Spy Handler]

Bing's servers run on Windows

Google's servers run on *Nix

Of course Bing is going to find more malware!

Re:Well to be fair

[Archangel Michael]

Bing
Is
Not
Google