Report: Bing Is Better Than Google When It Comes To Detecting A Malware

Posted on Apr 12 2013 - 7:00am by Editorial Staff

Search Engines

It would certainly a Bing day as to believe with an 18-month study by German security firm AV-Test (via PC Mag) that Bing is five times better than Google at finding malware. Interestingly, the search giant Google knows well known as on safety mode when even compare with its rivals but as per the study, when it comes to detecting malware, Bing wins the race.

The firm comes to conclusion after analysing about 40 million websites provided by seven different search engines, with division goes like this: 10 million results came from Bing, another 10 million from Google, 13 million from Yandex and rest comes from Blekko, Faroo, Teoma and Baidu respectively. Of all these, AV-Test founded some 5000 pieces of malware, although irrespective it is a very small percentage in real.

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