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Frustration grows over Google's AI Overviews feature, how to disable

Since Google enabled its AI-powered search feature, many people have tried and failed to disable the often incorrect AI Overviews feature in regular search results. However, there are ways to turn it off using a new "Web" search mode, which we explain in this article..
- Mayank Parmar
- May 19, 2024
- 01:43 PM
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Google's new AI search results promotes sites pushing malware, scams

Google's new AI-powered 'Search Generative Experience' algorithms recommend scam sites that redirect visitors to unwanted Chrome extensions, fake iPhone giveaways, browser spam subscriptions, and tech support scams.
- Mayank Parmar
- March 25, 2024
- 07:32 AM
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Hackers exploit 14-year-old CMS editor on govt, edu sites for SEO poisoning

Threat actors are exploiting a CMS editor discontinued 14 years ago to compromise education and government entities worldwide to poison search results with malicious sites or scams.
- Bill Toulas
- February 26, 2024
- 02:59 PM
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Google Search bug shows blank page in Firefox for Android

Users of the Firefox browser for Android have been reporting that they are seeing a blank page when trying to load the main Google Search site.
- Bill Toulas
- January 09, 2024
- 09:48 AM
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Fake KeePass site uses Google Ads and Punycode to push malware

A Google Ads campaign was found pushing a fake KeePass download site that used Punycode to appear as the official domain of the KeePass password manager to distribute malware.
- Bill Toulas
- October 19, 2023
- 02:17 PM
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Malicious Notepad++ Google ads evade detection for months

A new Google Search malvertizing campaign targets users looking to download the popular Notepad++ text editor, employing advanced techniques to evade detection and analysis.
- Bill Toulas
- October 17, 2023
- 03:48 PM
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Fake Cisco Webex Google Ads abuse tracking templates to push malware

Threat actors use Google Ads tracking templates as a loophole to create convincing Webex software search ads that redirect users to websites that distribute the BatLoader malware.
- Bill Toulas
- September 14, 2023
- 09:47 AM
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Google makes it easier to remove your info, explicit images from search

Google will soon make it easier to remove your personally identifiable information and explicit images from search results right from Google Search or the Google app.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- August 03, 2023
- 01:28 PM
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Brave Search adds private image and video search capability

The privacy-focused search engine Brave Search has finally introduced its own, independent image and video search capabilities, breaking free from relying on Bing and Google for media search.
- Bill Toulas
- August 03, 2023
- 12:00 PM
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Google targets fake business reviews network in new lawsuit

Google has filed a consumer protection lawsuit against Ethan QiQi Hu and his company, Rafadigital, accusing him of creating 350 fraudulent Business Profiles and 14,000 fake reviews for an alleged business verification service for Google services.
- Bill Toulas
- June 16, 2023
- 02:26 PM
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Google Search outage prevents some from seeing search results

Google Search is currently suffering a partial outage that prevents the search engine from returning search results for some people.
- Lawrence Abrams
- April 18, 2023
- 09:26 PM
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Malicious Google ads sneak AWS phishing sites into search results

A new phishing campaign targeting Amazon Web Services (AWS) logins is abusing Google ads to sneak phishing sites into Google Search to steal your login credentials.
- Bill Toulas
- February 09, 2023
- 01:37 PM
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Google Search results poisoned with torrent sites via Data Studio

Threat actors are abusing Google's Looker Studio (formerly Google Data Studio) to boost search engine rankings for their illicit websites that promote spam, torrents, and pirated content.
- Ax Sharma
- November 18, 2022
- 09:03 AM
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15,000 sites hacked for massive Google SEO poisoning campaign

Hackers are conducting a massive black hat search engine optimization (SEO) campaign by compromising almost 15,000 websites to redirect visitors to fake Q&A discussion forums.
- Bill Toulas
- November 09, 2022
- 01:08 PM
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Convincing ‘YouTube’ Google ads lead to Windows support scams

A scarily realistic-looking Google Search YouTube advertisement is redirecting visitors to tech support scams pretending to be security alerts from Windows Defender.
- Lawrence Abrams
- July 20, 2022
- 02:43 PM
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Beware: Malicious Home Depot ad gets top spot in Google Search

A malicious Home Depot advertising campaign is redirect Google search visitors to tech support scams.
- Lawrence Abrams
- January 30, 2021
- 12:49 PM
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Google search bug freezes tabs when using a custom date range

A bug in Google Search is causing a browser tab to freeze when searching between a specified range of dates.
- Lawrence Abrams
- January 19, 2021
- 03:46 PM
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Google Search bug prevents new content from being indexed

Google Search is facing indexing issues on June 2, 2020 and the bug prevents users from discovering new content across the search engine.
- Mayank Parmar
- June 02, 2020
- 11:05 AM
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Google Advises Against Disabling Sites During the Pandemic

Google warns businesses against disabling their websites during the COVID-19 and, instead, recommends limiting their functionality to avoid being penalized in Google Search results.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- March 27, 2020
- 02:34 PM
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Google Chrome Tests Replacing URLs With Search Queries in Address Bar

Google has started testing a feature that will display the search query in the Chrome address bar rather than the actual page's URL when performing searches on Google.
- Lawrence Abrams
- January 29, 2020
- 01:10 PM
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