Google needs to do some house cleaning and stop paid advertisers that have low reliability from advertising in their sponsored ads section. This has been an ongoing issue for years that should have been addressed a long time ago. You would think the most popular search company would filter and monitor its paid advertisers.
The reason why I am writing this article is because a commenter made some valid points from a previous article titled – “Why Google Instant Needs to Address BlackHat SEO.” I would like to thank Clarkson at pacificvacuum.com.
Google needs to protect users by eliminating these paid advertisers who pawn their rogue software for profit.
There’s one paid ad (pictured below) in the sponsored section to the right that goes to spynomore.com which is a site that peddles Rogue Antispyware. Rogue software is a scam and its only intent is to steal your money.
In addition to low reliable paid advertisers, Google needs to de-index and remove suggestive sites that are dangerous from its search as well. When a user is searching for antivirus and they enter the first 5 characters – “ANTIV”, Google suggests sites that sell rogue anti-virus such as Antivir Solution Pro. See image below.
I highly recommend downloading the WOT (Web of Trust) add-on for IE and/or Firefox. The WOT add-on warns you about risky sites before you click.
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Frank :
This is not site suggestion, this is search suggestions, and removal instructions for the rogues will be first results in most of the cases. You will not be redirected to Antivir Solution Pro site, you can test that. DO you want people stopping searching for removal instructions?
Real rogues do not rely on SEO that much! :)
giedrius,
It’s not? If I type the first 5 characters for Antivirus and Antivir Solution Pro shows as the first choice how can this not be suggestive?
I totally agree with you Frank; but I highly doubt Google is going to do anything about it. For years the “sponsored links” section has been a haven for scammers and rogues, and Google hasn’t addressed this issue at all, and I doubt it will start now… :(
But, I suppose we can still have hope :-)
Bob,
Google needs to step up and protect users, period.
>>Google needs to step up and protect users, period.
Agreed. I doubt it will ever though; Maybe I’m a pessimist, but I’ve moved on:
http://www.scroogle.org
Same Google results, better privacy :)
Also has an SSL Version:
https://ssl.scroogle.org
Im in Australia and tried the same search enquiry under google.com.au spy ware remove .com is targeting a global market….FYI John
Thanks for the info!
Thanks for the heads up and information about this,I totally agree with you Frank; but I highly doubt Google is going to do anything about it.
If at all Google tries to keep them low, scammers will still find their ways to beat the system.
Rayz,
They are a creative bunch for sure.
yeah, i pretty sure that google will clean up this scammers someday