AI Google failure to protect users from malicious websites; understand

Earlier this month, the Google started rolling out a new feature called Google Search Generative Experience (SGE) in your search results, which provides quick summaries generated by artificial intelligence for search queries, including recommendations for other sites related to the searched subject.

Google's new AI search results promotes sites pushing malware, scams – @mayank_jeehttps://t.co/TI7f9FJvgDhttps://t.co/TI7f9FJvgD

— BleepingComputer (@BleepinComputer) March 25, 2024

However, how SEO consultant Lily Ray discovered, the SGE of Google is recommending malicious and spammy websites in its conversational replies, making it easier for users to fall for scams.

OH GOOD.

SGE WILL EVEN RECOMMEND THE SPAM SITES AS PART OF THE ANSWER. pic.twitter.com/wqgFFXqbMB

— Lily Ray 😏 (@lilyraynyc) March 22, 2024

O BleepingComputer discovered that the sites listed by SGE tend to use the .online TLD, the same HTML templates, and the same sites to perform redirects.

This similarity indicates that they are all part of the same SEO poisoning campaign that allowed them to be part of the index. Google. When you click on the website in the search results of Google, visitors will go through a series of redirects until they arrive at a fraudulent website.

In testing, redirects often lead you to fake captchas or scam sites. YouTube that attempt to trick visitors into subscribing to browser notifications.

It's unclear how these low-quality sites are making their way into Google's AI-based search algorithms. Google.

However, as AI becomes a more significant part of the way we search online, it is becoming increasingly clear that we cannot automatically trust the information these algorithms produce and that we should check websites before visiting them. 

O Google stated that it continually updates its ranking systems and algorithms to protect against spam. However, “spammers” also develop their techniques to avoid detection and get their content into the search index, making this a game of cat and mouse.

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