Starting today, you may have noticed that a lot less search results were appearing in Yahoo Search. That’s because they have started filtering out all of the dangerous spam websites from their index using McAfee’s SiteAdvisor.
SiteAdvisor can be downloaded as a plug-in to Firefox or Internet explorer, but Yahoo has been working since late last year to integrate McAfee’s Web site rating technology into their search engine servers, according to Priyank Garg, a director of product management with Yahoo.
Web sites associated with malware will be dropped from search results altogether and Yahoo searchers will now see red warning labels warning them of sites that SiteAdvisor has linked with things like dangerous downloads or unsolicited e-mail.