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Should Google Introduce A Malware Filter?

One of the bigger complaints about Google’s search ability is the amount of sites containing various amounts of malware or spyware or viruses still tend to permeate Google’s search results. Many a horror story has been told about a users getting some type of computer infection from a site they’ve discovered on Google (or any search engine for that matter).

Does Google Filter Results?

I’ve read many times over that Google’s using a filter to help screen out results for certain search terms. GoogleGuy, Google’s PR representative at WebMasterWorld, all but denies the existence of filters. Because of the continued filtering questions and adamant denials I decided to enlist some help from professionals and find out what a filter is, why Google receives filtering accusations, and what the implications of a filter would be.

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