If you pay close attention when you visit Google’s main page and perform a search; the search results page is not www.google.com/search but rather www.l.google.com/search which is strange.
This has something to do with “changes” that Google made over the past few days but beyond that it’s not clear what’s going on or why this is the case. You will notice that by visiting the two URLs above both go to www.l.google.com/search and that’s the way it is, for now.
McAfee will have to update Site Advisor to support the “safe search” feature since it does not currently work with Google’s new search redirect (or whatever it has done) URL.
For the time being Site Advisor is effectively disabled on Google search; if you like the features and protection Site Advisor provides, it is still working on most other search engines including Yahoo!
A big “thank you” to Google for disabling one of my favorite extensions, I’m using Yahoo until Google goes back to the “classic” search or until McAfee updates its software.
This new “redirect” as I’m calling it effects the IE and Firefox version of Site Advisor since the browsers take you to the same Internet.
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