frontpage - 5:17 pm on Feb 2, 2009 (gmt 0)

1)

Adwords and Locals were NOT affected. Which means that they are NOT included in the Bad Site check. Since adwords are known to be used to advertise malware sites - WORRY about it! Why are they not included?

Simple. You pay money to Google to advertise so you get a pass.

2) Imagine a newspaper that publishes a list of business in its justification and has a big label next to them stating "Harmful" to consumers.

There would be lawsuits galore for defamation.

Google gets a pass for pulling this more than once.

Think of all the wasted man hours that Webmasters world wide expended trying to fix a problem that did not exist and visitors who added those websites to the mental list of 'do not visit in the future'.