Wow, Google has like 90% of the search market, so the fact that they have 69% of the malware poisoned strings actually means that they do a BETTER job at filtering these things (when things are NORMALIZED). This is the problem with NUMBERS. If you don't understand them, you can make them say ANYTHING.
If Google were as bad as the other providers then everyone's distribution of malware would equal their market share in search. So, if you want to really get a sense of who the bad actors are, line up their market share with their amount of malware infested links. You'll find that Yahoo and Microsoft are doing a much worse job than Google.
And in this case, the fact that it is taking less than 25% of the time for links to show up in Google is even more statistically significant, because it points to the fact that Google is "fresher" and more able to keep it's content relative.
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