Google censoring sites
I was quietly minding my own business and encounter this whilst searching some stuff for one of my favourite shows.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=tony+almeida+is+god
Underneath the first link, “ALMEIDA IS GOD [dot] COM // your first 24 fan resource”, there is a note.
It says “This site may harm your computer.”
What’s going on here? Previously (on 24), I was able to visit that website! Anyhow Google do censor (or make a note of harmful) stuff.
I’ll sit on the fence whether this is a good or bad thing. But it did stop me visiting the site…
I lie I just visited it, it seems fine. Wait I remember why it may possibly be harmful. A lot of popular sites randomly pop up some software trying to install helpful pc scanners, which of course are bollo^H^H^H^H^Hspyware.
Anyhow I just checked with yahoo and well no mention of the site being harmful. So google censoring tactics seem new…
Google have been working on Malware detection features in their search engine for a while (I think). It would be interesting to know how these sites are chosen.
Yeah, it’s not entirely new but it hasn’t been like that for years either..
Google do it in cooperation with http://www.stopbadware.org where more information is also available.
Yeah, well “apparently” they will also be removing p2p and other “under the belt” sites altogether from their search results.
That’s an eyeopener that http://www.stopbadware.org link. Good spot!
That stop badware campaign may not be new but I’m curious to know how long google have enforced this in their search engine.