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SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 19, 2013

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Bing: Our Search Results Do Not Infect Users, “Malware Study Was Wrong” Bing has responded to the malware study conducted by AV-TEST earlier this week, claiming that Bing search results led […]

Barry Schwartz on April 19, 2013 at 4:00 pm | Reading time: 4 minutes

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web.

From Search Engine Land:

Bing: Our Search Results Do Not Infect Users, “Malware Study Was Wrong”
Bing has responded to the malware study conducted by AV-TEST earlier this week, claiming that Bing search results led to the most amount of malware than any other search engine. The study said Bing had almost five times as many infected results as Google. To that Bing said, “the conclusions many have drawn from the […]
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