New ‘neighborhood watch’ from Google search
Google is on its way to build a new “traffic cop” layer into the search engine, it is made to help the internet users evade websites containing spyware and malicious code. When a user click on a link from Google’s search results to a site that is called to contain malware, they would soon be routed to a page that reads: “Warning – the site you are about to visit may harm you computer!”.
All the sites which Google recognizes as harmful are based on the reports from the StopBadware coalition that was set up Harvard Law School’s Berkman Centre for Internet & Society and Oxford University’s Oxford Internet Institute, Google, Lenovo and Sun Microsystems also hold partnership in the scheme.
The StopBadware website said its proposal was incoming a “new phase” with Google introducing the warning system to its search engine. Although Google has already introduced some warnings for several malevolent websites, a number of sites lately identified by StopBadware did not yet trigger a warning from the search engine. Given the company itself has not yet issued a statement on the proposal, it is not yet clear when the function would be fully operational.
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