Google pulls co.cc subdomains from search, brings our global malware nightmare to an end

Google's been on a creative tear lately, rolling out new products and revamping older ones. But there's a reason the phrase "search giant" is synonymous with Big G, and it's always working to return better results. Sometimes that means tweaking its algorithm to prevent SEO-gaming; other times it means dropping over 11 million sites from search results, as the company just did in blocking the .co.cc subdomain.

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I'm not sure why, but the first thing I thought of when reading this is if its so easy for them to exclude co.cc, imagine how easy it would be to exclude .XXX