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 Posted: Sat 14:15, 28 May 2011 Post subject: Yahoo Adds Safety Alerts To Search_18213 |
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Yahoo opened the beta test of SearchScan in several countries to help safeguard people against potentially dangerous links in their search results.Searchers may notice something different about the search results in Yahoo. The company partnered with security vendor McAfee,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[url=christianlouboutinclearance-2011.com]louboutins shoes clearance[/url], which runs the SiteAdvisor service, to power a new feature called SearchScan.While SearchScan will be on by default, users have control over how they use the feature, said the Yahoo Search blog. In preferences,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], users can choose to turn the feature off or choose to filter out all sites with warnings from their search results.SearchScan compares links with an index of ones it has checked for possible problems, like browser exploits, unsafe downloads, or just the likelihood the site spams visitors who give it an email address.McAfee said its site ratings are based on automated safety tests of websites, and include feedback from volunteer reviewers and its analysts.Yahoos Vish Makhijani, SVP GM for their search engine,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], noted on the official Yahoo blog how they are the only search site providing this type of advance warning today. People will see these warnings appear in red with the listing SearchScan flags.SearchScan should be of great benefit to people whose less than perfect spelling leads them to mistype a query, which could return a link or two that direct people to a dangerous website. Some scammers register incorrectly spelled domains in the hopes of bringing in visitors who hit a wrong letter or two.Other search sites may want to consider similar initiatives. Google for one has been vexed for months with SEO poisoning attacks that drop links to infected pages into its listings. Their work with StopBadware.org doesnt seem to notice these links, and thats not good for visitors.
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