Is google.com Safe?

I found this review by Google of their own search service very interesting. I was not expecting this, especially since I've been using Google for several years. Apparently from the reviews, most of the other WOT reviewers feel that Google is safe also. Safe Browsing Diagnostic page for google.com What is the current listing status for google.com? This site is not currently listed as suspicious. Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 40 time(s) over the past 90 days. What happened when Google visited this site? Of the ***** pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 971 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2014-07-25, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on ***** Malicious software includes 450 trojan(s), 253 scripting exploit(s), 238 exploit(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 2 new process(es) on the target machine. Malicious software is hosted on 176 domain(s), including abu-farhan.com/, fywybyra.1dumb.com/, ***** 196 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including gameszoone.com/, playerstation.info/, ***** This site was hosted on 4 network(s) including AS15169 (GOOGLE), AS36040 (YOUTUBE), AS33626 (OVERSEE-DOT-NET). Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware? Over the past 90 days, google.com appeared to function as an intermediary for the infection of 88 site(s) including alanyada-ucuzotel.com/, dinhcaoauto.info/, ***** Has this site hosted malware? Yes, this site has hosted malicious software over the past 90 days. It infected 41 domain(s), including joomfa.org/, burguscircus.free.fr/, *****

Ads in search results can be misunderstood as actual results by novice users, often leading to downloading malware and participating in phishing scams. (For example, a novice internet user searching "download itunes" will be presented with malicious websites in the ads.)

Google tracks the identity of adults and children across its Web services and beyond. See ***** It suggests the installation of software that sends users' personal information to Google without consent. See ***** Finally, Google cooperates with authoritarian regimes abroad to censor the Web. See *****

Google tracks you. This is why I use duckduckgo. I say if it didn't track you it would be the best search engine out there.