Google is a partially dangerous website, warns Google

[Hydra009]

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/google-is-a-partially-dangerous-website-google-says-a6992596.html

Google is a “partially dangerous” website and people should be careful when using it, Google has warned.

The site’s main search engine could try and steal the personal information of its users or install malware on their computers, according to Google’s unusually frank assessment of itself.

The warning comes as part of Google’s own online transparency report, which lists reports on how private and safe websites are â€" and calls out those that are potentially dangerous.

That includes Google itself, which is said to contain pages that have “deceptive content”. It also says that some pages on the domain install malware, steal personal information from their users and redirect users to other suspect websites.

[Mr.Obvious]

Well, if you are going to spit in my face, The least you can do is be honest about it.

[stromboli]

They can do this because they know the alternatives are worse.

[SGOS]

They can do this because they know the alternatives are worse.

That describes my thinking.  I'll continue to use Google for now.  Yes, it's become more intrusive, and googling information more often steers me to sites trying to sell me something (Oh Hell, who needs information when somebody is trying to sell me something)?  From my perspective Google is not as good as it used to be.  It used to provide pretty useful services.  That's being sacrificed, actually some of the services have sacrificed by quite a bit, since their business model has moved towards wringing the last few dimes out of a turnip.  It's inevitable.  That's what big companies do when they max out their market share, and run out of new ideas.

[Baruch]

Been there, done that ... Yahoo!

[AkiraTheFighter]

Just use ixquick. Problem solved.

[Mike Cl]

Just use ixquick. Problem solved.

Never heard of ixquick.  Looks good--thanks.

[Sal1981]

I'm too apathetic to care about browser tracking from search engines. I do use Firefox though.

[SGOS]

“partially dangerous”  WTF??  From now on I'm not going to use the dangerous part........................... What part is that, anyway?

[Hydra009]

Never heard of ixquick.  Looks good--thanks.

It's good.  I use it a lot for scientific research.

[Hydra009]

“partially dangerous”  WTF??  From now on I'm not going to use the dangerous part........................... What part is that, anyway?

It's not the search engine itself that's the problem, it's that some some people are using google to host malicious stuff (like on groups.google.com), which reflects badly on the whole domain.

Google has since taken steps to correct this problem, and Google no longer considers its domain dangerous, though obviously, be careful about what you click on.

[Baruch]

Clicking thru to the page explaining the brouhaha ... was bad enough, I was advert-jacked all over the place by that hostile web site ;-)

[AkiraTheFighter]

It's good.  I use it a lot for scientific research.

Yes I use it for "scientific research" as well. ;)

[drunkenshoe]

I think this is the defintion of seeing people as retarded in a literal sense. What is supposed to be the news about a flow of uncontrollable, unbelivable amount of every kind of information moving around in 'light speed' being dangerous?

The fact that they made a stupid statement about it? That's news? It's not. 'Partially dangerous'. Ffs.

Everything is a fucking marketing show.

[Baruch]

It was along the west coast of Asia Minor ... where this Lydian/Greek commerce started (in the West, not China).  Marketing and sales that went beyond barter.  Small scale liquidity was a major advance for commerce, initially inter-business.  End consumers still had to bargain using their own farm produce.  It has had an amazing run after 2650 years.  But liquidity has moved on from alluvial electrum to binary bits.