Wednesday, February 21, 2007

google search malware warning update

i wrote before about google's efforts to warn users of their search engine when visiting known bad sites and i had a number of concerns about how it had been implemented...

it appears that somewhere along the line ALL of those concerns were addressed... as you can see below, not only was a backlink added so that users could back out of going to the bad site but the mal-link itself has become non-clickable (a user would have to copy-n-paste the url into a browser window in order to continue to the bad site)... as such they've now made the safest option the easiest option...


but wait, that's not all... they've also gone and marked up the results page itself so you know right from the results page if a particular link is bad or not...


did my previous post on this have anything to do with getting these changes made? probably not, but that's not what's important... what's important is that the changes were made and the feature is a lot safer (and more convenient) because of it...

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