Google's new feature: Hacked site alert.

Google has added a new feature to it's search engine. It can alert the users in its search result for websites that might have been compromised by displaying the link - 'This site may be compromised'. When users click the new "This site may be compromised" link, they get directed to more information in the Help Center. The websites flagged as compromised are still accessible.
It's a great idea to alert the naive users from being affected by malware & spyware & avoid affecting other users. Google plans to alert the hacked site's webmaster, as well, Wald said. The search engine giant already provides a notification in search results for sites that are potentially serving up malware.



Gideon Wald, associate product manager for Google, in a blog post said, "The notification is for sites that might have been compromised by an outsider for spam or other abuse."
"When our malware detection system classifies a site as potentially hosting malware, we show a message in our search results. (This is the page you're used to seeing, and clicking the title of the result leads to an interstitial page.) When we believe a site may be hacked or compromised but have not detected malware, we display, 'This site may be compromised' as an alert. Since our systems have not detected malware, clicking on the title of the result leads directly to the target website with no interstitial page. However, in both cases it would be wise to proceed with caution," Google said in a post explaining the features.

"We use a variety of automated tools to detect common signs of a hacked site as quickly as possible. When we detect something suspicious, we'll add the notification to our search results. We'll also do our best to contact the site's webmaster via their Webmaster Tools account and any contact email addresses we can find on the webpage. We hope webmasters will also appreciate these notices, because it will help you more quickly discover when someone may be abusing your site so you can correct the problem," Google's Wald blogged.

When the compromised site is cleaned up, Google will remove the warning label from the search results, "usually in a matter of days," according to Google.