As the major search engines add Twitter and Facebook updates to their results pages, security experts are issuing a warning to all web users who click before reading. The concerns derive from hackers' freedom to post malicious web links onto social media threads that could soon show up in places like Google, Yahoo, and Bing, according to USA Today.
Google says it works tirelessly to halt spammers and hackers from spreading malicious viruses around the internet, but its new real-time results feeds might make it more difficult to stop these villains before they do major damage.
The major search engines already have corrupted web links on their pages, and the addition of social media feeds with potentially damaging links will only amplify the situation. Some hackers even know proper ways to give their contaminated links high rankings in search engines, according to USA Today.