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Google Adding Hacked Site Notifications in Search Results

Google Adding Hacked Site Notifications in Search Results
Google announced in its blog that they are adding a new notice service that would include a separate warning page. This move is designed to offer searchers the most relevant and the safest search results. This will be the company’s search trend next year.

A variety of automated tools are used to detect hacked sites and a message will indicate security compromises, which will be included under the links to violated result pages. Searchers can choose to click marked results and opt to click warning labels to learn more about the suspected site.

Google has also assured website masters that it will work to help them in case their sites are hacked. This will prevent them from losing traffic because of the notification. The company will contact the webmaster through the Webmaster Tools account or through the email addresses found on the web page. The notification on the search result will be removed once the problem is fixed.

Google has stated that adding this feature is only an effort to make the web a safer place. The hacked site notification feature is the latest innovation from Google and will be the search trend for 2011. They are focusing on these safety features and on adding apt notification systems for web owners.

Marketers will have to carefully monitor the Google accounts to make sure their web pages are hack-free and this will make their consumers more ready to click on their links when it is safe.

This new addition will propel Google one step ahead of its competition with Facebook in 2011, as the social networking giant is known for privacy issues.

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