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It is relatively interesting that the only numbers that you are using to refute a post about the relative malware distribution are ones provided by NetMarketShare and not comScore, the usually quoted and recognized market authority on search engine market share. You can debate "gaming" practices, but even if we take both of these together (comScore reported 62.6% for Google in June), it is far from a clear cut answer as to whether Google has a proportional share of malware distribution. From a security perspective, it strikes me that if companies like WebSense and Cisco (amongst others) can provide dynamic content scanning of search results specifically taylored to help trim out malware results... why can't the search providers themselves (be it MS / Yahoo / Google or a niche player not discussed)? At that point, aren't all of them equally not living up to what we should expect of them?
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