The South African search war has been won by Google.co.za years ago, and local search engines like Ananzi and Aardvark have lost their traction in the market.<\/p>\n
Ananzi currently has a South African Alexa traffic rank of 180, well below Google.co.za which is the most visited website in South Africa.<\/p>\n
Ananzi has now been dealt another blow. Google is warning its search users that visiting Ananzi may harm their computer. The malware warning “Warning – visiting this web site may harm your computer!” appears when clicking on an Ananzi.co.za link in Google.<\/p>\n
Google’s safe browsing diagnostic page about Ananzi reveals that “Of the 13 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 3 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2010-09-09, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2010-09-09”.<\/p>\n
Ananzi MD Mark Buwalda said that they are well aware of the problem which they narrowed down to a problem with an ad server. Buwalda added that they are keen to resolve the problem today.<\/p>\n