Search Engine Safety Ranked by Regional Google Engines
Posted by Shane Keats on January 9, 2007 09:23 AM
A few weeks ago, we released an update of this spring’s ground-breaking study of the safety of search engines. Today, we released a look at the safety of 31 different regional Google search engines.
Key findings:
• The most dangerous searches are being conducted on Google’s Indian regional domain, google.co.in. 9% of results for India’s most popular search terms are rated red or yellow by McAfee SiteAdvisor. Among India’s most popular risky keywords are Indian actors Salman Khan and Aishwarya Rai.
• Relatively risky searches are also being conducted by searchers in Greece (7.4%), where popular search terms include the television series “Rebelde Way” and pop band “Erreway.”
• Searchers in Finland and Ireland are performing the safest searches: only 0.7% and 0.9% of results for the most popular searches on google.fi and google.ie are rated red or yellow.
Search Study in Translation
Today, we also released the addendum along with the original study in German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Japanese, and Chinese (both traditional and simple.) Here are links to each of the translations:
German Study
German Addendum
Spanish Study
Spanish Addendum
French Study
French Addendum
Dutch Study
Dutch Addendum
Japanese Study
Japanese Addendum
Portuguese Study
Portuguese Addendum
Chinese Simplified Study
Chinese Simplified Addendum
Chinese Traditional Study
Chinese Traditional Addendum
Comments
SiteAdvisor works on the GYM sites (Google, Yahoo, and MSN), but what about other SE's?
I want to use http://hakia.com/ but I'm scared to do anything without Advisor helping me out. TIA.
Posted by: BillyG | July 31, 2007 05:58 AM
Since when did Salman Khan become a dangerous search? That sounds almost as dangerous as playing with a nerf football!
Posted by: Dave | August 27, 2007 11:00 PM