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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."

5 of 111 comments (clear)

  1. Deception by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is kind of a deceptive title, the article is about how Google results contain less malware sites, because Bing misses them when scanning.

  2. Re:Well to be fair by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    5,000 across all 4 tested search engines vs. 10,000,000 pages searched with just Bing. The real story here is that search engines generally don't return malware pages at all anymore, but lets put that line at the end and make it another corp-war story instead.

  3. The title is wrong. by khasim · · Score: 4, Informative

    From TFA:

    Google the Safest
    The study concluded that while all the search engines the lab evaluated delivered malware, Google delivered the least. It was followed by Bing, which returned a disconcerting five times as much malware as Google.

  4. Google has a lot of experience.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Google's been in the search game for a while now. They're quite used to being scammed, SEOd, manipulated, and probably have whole departments and armies of programmers/scientists just devoted to keeping their search results malware and scam free (As much as possible at least)

    Google often goes out of their way to point out that their main purpose is to simply categorize and index the information available on the internet.

  5. Re:Easy to achieve by afidel · · Score: 4, Informative

    LOL, way to not even read the summary, Bing returned 500% more results containing links to infected sites, quite the opposite of what you are saying.

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