Royal Wedding or Royal Pain?

Curious commoners may wonder, is Kanye West really invited to the royal wedding? Wedding watchers may want to know that plugging in those search parameters, 'is Kanye West really invited to the royal wedding?' will retrieve results that may be poisonous, according to a recent Norton study.

That would be SEOP--search engine optimization poisonous--to be precise.

Maybe it's best to head to on De Anza Boulevard at 2:15 a.m. to watch the wedding live--the only known place in Cupertino where you can find a British breakfast, coffee and tea to help you get in the spirit.

Owner is unaware of any plans of tiaras showing up at the pub, but says he hadn't really thought about a dress code for the event.

OK, so maybe you plan to be asleep when the wedding is live and plan to watch it later on your computer. Be cautious. Out of 100 searches conducted with those 'Kanye West' terms, 45 were of a "malicious" nature, according to a spokesman familiar with the study.

Plug in the words "william and kate movie imdb" and 61 out of 100 results were of a malicious nature.

Malicious links can look legitimate, and lead one to a website that doesn't have true, or real information on the wedding itself, but exist-- or 'phish'--to reel in people in order to gain personal information that can later be used illegally.

It's not a new phenomenon, says a spokesman for Norton, which is produced by former Cupertino-based Symantec. It was, and is, a common occurrence with the tragedies in Japan.

Barnes says people enter search terms such as "japan" and "donations" and hundreds of sites come up in the results that are not legitimate. And in recent weeks the numbers of searches related to Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding have increased.

On Wednesday, royal wedding-related searches returned more than 2,000 "poisonous" websites in returns  in Norton's survey.

When 62 percent of Americans surveyed said they are like to follow the British royal wedding, those are juicy numbers for cybercriminals to follow.

This is not to scare people, the company says, it wants people to enjoy the royal wedding through reputable sites.

Or skip the web-based wedding watching and watch it live at Brittania Arms.