seriously, i just picked blinklist - but there's more of them out there. google's nifty little warning - "This site may harm your computer." - will come up under several searches for social bookmarking sites such as blinklist.
here's the blinklist example: The Search On Google: Malware (hey it's an easy one) and then the result will lead you to this page: Warning!
When actually, you'd be going to a fairly harmless page in itself: http://www.blinklist.com/tag/malware/ - which google will not take you to - you'll have to copy and paste to get in.
granted, links on this page will include the sort you'd not want to visit - because they include user added sites which promote downloads which contain malware.
however, enter the irony...
google's warning page is based upon StopBadware.org - and the blinklist page above happens to list what page? yep, you guessed it: StopBadware.org
so, this attempt at "nice" by google ends up being a page which associates StopBadware.org as being among those sites which google applies the warning: "This site may harm your computer."
i am not sure how in the world (or how on earth - just to be redundant) this step by google doesn't end up putting many web site results in "a bad neighborhood"?
sure, StopBadware.org isn't going to be tarred nor hurt by that association (i don't think) but blogs such as my own - smaller ranked sites - who knows??? all of these sites might end up as guilty by a google results association.
there probably should be more noise out there about this ... all i keep getting are nice articles about google's move when i search ... but i see this as brrrrrr - chilling somehow.
maybe this needs a re-think? me thinks.
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