Google Crowned 'King of Malware' - PCWorld

Google Crowned 'King of Malware' - PCWorld: "Google has been crowned the 'king of malware' by security company Barracuda Networks, linking to twice as much malware as search rivals Bing, Yahoo and Twitter combined.

According to the company, an analysis of 25,000 trending topics across 5.5 million search results [PDF], Google accounted for 69 percent of all malware found, with Yahoo at 18 percent, Bing (which supplies Yahoo search) at 12 percent, and Twitter on 1 percent.

Artwork: Chip TaylorAs for the trend topics that drive malware in search results, the gap between one appearing on Twitter and in search results varied from 1.2 days on Google to 4.3 days in Bing, and 4.8 days on Yahoo. This suggests that one reason for Google's popularity in the malware stakes is simply is responsiveness in picking up on these trending subjects. Malware embedded in search simply follows this.

The other is perhaps its outright popularity. According to a recent comScore analysis, 62.6 percent of all US search traffic is on Google's site, well ahead of yahoo's 18.9 percent and Bing's 12.7 percent."

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