Interesting New Development on Google

A friend of mine in Chicago is flying out to L.A. in a few days and will be trying a famous hot dog place called "Pink's". I decided to check it out on the Internet. So I went to Google and found myself here.

You'll notice that something looks a bit different from a normal search. Underneath the link is another one that reads "This site may harm your computer." I'd never seen this before. If you try going to the actual website, instead you're taken to a special page that provides a pretty severe warning. You're instead encouraged to visit StopBadware.org.

This is a very interesting development. Companies like Pink's Hotdogs are legit but there's something embedded in their website that is clearly frowned upon. Google isn't preventing you from going there but is raising alarm bells and making it much more difficult. With Google's market dominance, only a foolish website owner wouldn't change whatever is required to remove themselves from the blacklist.

I wonder if there'll be an uproar about this.