The Mountain View company introduced Safe Browsing API that might represent the first step for a powerful security solution powered by Google than can improve the online security of the users. Basically, it is only a testing API that is based on a database provided by Google and containing valuable information about the Internet threats, such as websites distributing malware, spyware and other infections.

Every time a user tries to visit a malicious website, the utility alerts him and provides additional details about the threat. Because it is an API version, Safe Browsing can be used by any developer to place it on his page and "warn users before clicking on links that appear in your site when they lead to malware-infested pages". Additionally, you can "prevent users from posting links to phishing pages from your site" and "check a list of pages against Google's suspected phishing and malware lists."

Today, Brian Rakowski and Garrett Casto, Anti-Phishing and Anti-Malware Teams, described the tool as the perfect challenge for phishers and malware authors because Safe Browsing was especially created to fight with them.

"OK, so it might be a little early to declare victory, but we're excited about the Safe Browsing API we launched today. It provides a simple mechanism for downloading Google's lists of suspected phishing and malware URLs, so now any developer can access the blacklists used in products such as Firefox and Google Desktop. The API is still experimental, but we hope it will be useful to ISPs, web-hosting companies, and anyone building a site or an application that publishes or transmits user-generated links," the Google employee said.

If you want to use this innovative technology released by the Mountain View company, you should register for a key using this link. The key is free for all the users and can be obtained with ease by means of a simple web-interface.