Google claims to offer safer surfing

by Hugh Bicheno on 24 May 2008, 08:53

Tags: Google (NASDAQ:GOOG)

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Potentially quite useful

Google’s Safe Browsing diagnostic tool is an experimental API that enables client applications to check URLs against Google’s blacklists.

To use the tool, just append a URL to the end of:

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=

Thus, to test this site, enter:

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/

diagnostic?site=http://channel.hexus.net/

To get this reassuring result:

 

 



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Google has not visited this site within the past 90 days

No, this site has not hosted malicious software over the past 90 days

how does it know though? google says this site has been clean for 90 days, yet also says it hasn't been here in 90 days… just doesn't make sense to me…:surprised:


i think there are still bugs in the software..:)