One thing that we all tend to overlook is the fact of how much we are being tracked on the internet. Especially by Google. Did you ever look at their icon? What do you see? I see a giant eye looking at me. And essentially that's what they are doing, how they make their money, watching, observing what people search for and then monetizing it. Let's face it, they know their business, kudos to them.

However, you don't have to help them, and in effect, you might be better off if you don't. Alternative search engines exist, and one of the safest and most private that I have found to date is Startpage.com It does not record your IP address and is completely private with no data captured. In this day and age where so many people are involved with viewing our data, it makes ...

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If you are using Google to search on the internet there is a very simple method to protect yourself from malicious search engine results. To accomplish this simply use SSL for your search. i.e. use https://www.google.com as your starting point. This prevents you from getting redirected to these sites. There are more and more hackers using this method to infect people with malware. So, now you have a good and simple method to block these sites.

Although this post on the issue is a little late, it's important that end-users become aware of the growing threat from poison search listings. Within the last week there have been over 6600 malicious site listings under the top 300 search topics on Google.

To prevent this, you really need to be running a Site Advisor program rather than just using Google's search engine. This will alert you to a vulnerability that may be present. Attackers are constantly changing their seacrh terms and are very good at getting to the top of the search engines for a particular search term.

My recommendation for this is McAfee's Site Advisor.

It does a good job, its free, and you need to use a tool like this. For more information you can read the post at Dark Reading