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Yahoo Releases Safe Search Product into Beta

Yahoo has teamed up with McAfee to develop SearchScan, a new safe search service. Here’s what you need to know:

  • Provides always-on alerts to users for “risky” sites with security concerns including spyware, adware and other malicious software
  • Identifies sites that have shown bad email practices such as flooding user in-boxes with spammy emails
  • Available for Yahoo! Search users in the US, Canada, UK, France, Italy, Germany, Australia, New Zealand and Spain

“The new SearchScan feature from Yahoo! Search makes searching the Web even safer than ever before. No other search engine today offers this level of warning before visiting sites that can damage or infect a user’s PC and cost them valuable time and money,” said Vish Makhijani, senior vice president and general manager of Yahoo! Search. “Through this partnership with McAfee, we can offer users a safer search experience and drive more users to make Yahoo! Search their starting point on the Web.”

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Visual Search Engine Searchme Launches Private Beta

Sequoia Capital, which is known for its investments in both Google and Yahoo, today announced the private beta launch of its latest investment, Searchme, a visual search engine.

Searchme employs Adobe Flash and Flex to create a user interface that displays results as web page screenshots. the effect is similar to the Cover Flow feature in iTunes, where users “flip through” album cover art. Below the image results are text search results that look similar to Google results.

The perk of this technology is the ability to see a page before visiting it. If you’re fatigued from clicking on links to parked sites and made-for-AdSense pages, then Searchme’s visual results will be a welcome change.

But making sure the results are relevant is Searchme’s challenge. In an interview with Kara Swisher at Boomtown, her All Things Digital blog, Adams said, “We are no Google, of course, but we are trying something different to provide a new experience for search users. Most of all, we are trying to innovate in search, which is still largely a text and list experience.”

Google Removes a Ton of Malware Sites

Google has expunged more than 40,000 websites from its search index, removing a ton of sites because they contain malware. These websites were designed to install malicious software on the computers of people who stumbled on them, including spyware, viruses, adware and so-called “trojan horse” software, and by removing it, Google blocks their access to [...]