Google SERPS confuse me...

[trebul]

Just wondering how does a site that has the warning, "This site may harm your computer.", rank first for a certain set of keywords? Is this normal?

[choloman05]

Just because a site is at the top of Google's results doesn't mean you can trust it, or it's useful, or it is even very relevant to your search.  Of course, there are also sites that I have seen throw that error on certain browsers even though there is nothing harmful about the site.  I forget what the issue is in those cases, but one example is nasioc.com

[gigabytes]

Hi,

sites that have the warning from Google are usually shady sites that may contain viruses and other harmful stuff. Remember Google indexes millions of sites, they know a bad site when the spider one and they aren't usually wrong.

Sites ranked #1 in Google for many reasons, such as content related keywords, pagerank, speed, etc.

[trebul]

Interesting stuff, I just thought that if Google finds a site harmful, they would penalize it so it wouldn't be the first result.

[Samker]

Interesting stuff, I just thought that if Google finds a site harmful, they would penalize it so it wouldn't be the first result.

That's logical, but Google isn't...

[wynnyelle]

Yeah you'd think they'd want to remove it from SERPs altogether. Why include it? They penalise sites for other reasons, I'd say this one should top the list. What would you rather click on, a made for adsense site or a site full of trojans?