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

Well to be fair

[binarylarry]

Microsoft has much more experience with malware than Google does.

Misleading Title

[Bobfrankly1]

This isn't about successfully searching for malware, this is about failing to filter compromised or hostile websites out of your search results. It's about Google topping Bing at that filtering.

Also:

...and admittedly small percentage of websites."

editing plz?

Re:At least they are leading in something

[peragrin]

MSFT is still worth billions. that adds 5 years by itself. Just look at Dell. Just trying to go private(smart move long term) has the investor sharks circling to get a piece of the pie, This is going to extend dell going Private by at least a year, and if they manage to stop it the sharks will bleed Dell dry.

No MSFT going down won't be quiet or quick. It will be a mob of investors trying to force all the cash and other holdings to be sold and/or given to them while things get even worse. Personally I expect Ballmer to try and save the sinking ship not realizing all the other rats have left him behind.