Yahoo? Dangerous?

Yahoo has been in business for a long time now and is a leading email service provider and hosts a search engine. Yahoo is been in business before Google but it seems that Yahoo progresses slow compared to Google, MSN, Ask and Aol.

Yes, I am talking about the search engine security development. Recently Mcafee’s Site Advisor conducted a test for malicious pages present over the internet and targeted the most 5 popular search technologies: Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask.com and Aol. The malicious pages were discovered in all 5-search engines that are representing 93 percent of all search use according to McAfee.

Now the shocking part; Yahoo hosted the most number of malicious results with 3.6 percent of them containing adware and other threats while Google has only 1.9 percent while AOL is the cleanest search engine with 1.4 percent.

Since the previous security test in May 2006, most of the search engines including Google, Ask.com and Aol showed improvement while MSN and Yahoo security worsened.
Aol is rated the safest search engine as it showed only 2.9% of malicious result, while Ask.com showed the greatest improvement in the security from 6.1% from the last year to 3.5% in May 2007 and Google too improved its security 5.3% in May 2006 to 3.4% in May 2007. Yahoo returns the highest percentage of risky sites with 5.4% of results being harmful up from 4.3% from the last year.

So Aol receives the first rank among the safest search engines, while Google retain second followed by Ask.com, which showed a great improvement in the past year.