In 2008 & 2009, Google only listed two major competitors – Microsoft and Yahoo. And now in 2010, Google lists 10 major competitors starting from Microsoft, Yahoo on top of the list. This is not surprising, BUT the surprise is that, Apple actually was not listed on the chart.

Here is a list of ‘Top 10 Google competitors’:

1. Microsoft will be (Bing)
2. Yahoo
3. Amazon
4. EBay
5. Twitter
6. Facebook
7. Yelp (Business Review website)
8. Monster.com (Human Resources \ Job site)
9. WebMD (medical information site)
10. Kayak (travel website)

I wonder whats going on between Google & Apple

Google has a list of the top 10 malware pages published. So the website gumblar.cn distribute malware to almost 60,000 Websever . googleanalytlcs.net (not to be confused with the Google service) has 20,000 servers. Google currently monitors 4,000 Web sites spreading malware, only 1400 are from China.

Google recently posted Most popular malware sites in the last two months, which includes:

1. 38zu.cn
2. 94.247.2.195
3. d99q.cn
4. googleadsense.biz
5. Googleanalytics.net
6. gumbiar.cn
7. martruz.cn
8. orgsite.info
9. qwerz.cn
10. tousecn.cn

Most of the sites end with .CN which means that they are coming from China. Below id the graph that shows top-10 malware sites as counted by the number of compromised web sites that referenced it. All domains on the top-10 list are suspected to have compromised more than 10,000 web sites on the Internet.

To help make the Internet a safer place, please use the Google Safe Browsing API which is freely available and is being used by browsers such as Firefox and Chrome to protect users on the web. Also, you can checkout the Google pack which has antivirus to protect your computer from malwares\spywares.

Stay safe…!!