Google Search Results Cleaner in 2011 than 2010

There's a new report showing that Google search results are a lot better this year than last with regard to the results containing malware (SEP - Search Engine Poisoning) sites. That sounds like really good news on the face of it, as it means your web proxy or secure web gateway won't have to work as hard to protect you from these malicious search engine results. It used to be up 90% of results contained malware, and now, it's as few as only 3 malicious links in the first 10 pages of search results.

But there's bad news buried in this news as well. It turns out searches for software purchases online still contains about 90% malicious results. So there's no reason to back down from protecting your users, and if anything if you've got users out there searching for software purchases, you probably should increase your security and the protection your offering your users in your web proxy/secure web gateway.