Google.com also fare poorly on its own performance test: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...
Google.com partially dangerous
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#102> Some pages on google.com contain deceptive content right now. So can I believe this page or not?
To some extent...
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#103Good* for Google to spot their own website being not completely safe! Wonder if they did click on https://www.google.com/webmasters/hacked/ themselves to see how to get Google.com unhacked.... ;-) * Actually, I think it IS good that there is no 'whitelist' of domains which are surely safe, and that it checks even the company's own main website.
after all, Google once "sold" some guy the google.com domain by accident
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#104Also 4331 URLs removed from Google index [1] because of DMCA requests sent to Google: https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright... [1] http://domainstats.io/tools/dmca
Was recently reported that Google receives 100K DMCA requests per hour: http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/7/11172516/google-takedown-re...
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same as peer comments, this does not occur for me on any of my google accounts nor on an anonymous search. I think you may have adware.
It was on a fresh windows 10 install, so unlikely. Of course, now it isn't happening any more. Either they fixed it, it's intermittent, or I'm misremembering
Windows 10 is malware though.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just for the record, I quickly tried duckduckgo and bing (using !bang) and the first result I got from both the official chrome webpage.
I get two ads (edit: on duckduckgo) before any search results, one for googlechromeonline.com and one for downloadsem.com, both are spammy.
I just repeated your experiment: With my ad blocker disabled, I searched for "google chrome" on DDG. I got two ads above the search results; one was for google.com, and the second was for downloadsem.com, which is distributing a Chrome browser that comes with a lot of browser toolbars. I took screen shots. [1]
Of note is that these ads are powered by, and clicks redirect through, Yahoo.
[1]: Screen shots for the curious: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jiooo37trog860d/AAAgmpY9SMxcLyIVI...
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
pacaur -Sy google-chrome Didn't get any malware links like that. Windows software installation model is horrifying.
Not as horrifying as someone installing a build script without reviewing it first...
Pacaur explicitly asks you to review it, and you can easily check to verify the origin is https://dl.google.com for the deb the installer uses.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
pacaur -Sy google-chrome Didn't get any malware links like that. Windows software installation model is horrifying.
Anyone can upload malicious code on AUR. It just hasn't been targeted yet.
The difference is any AUR helper worth using tells you to review the pkgbuild. In this case, I can easily see that the deb the script uses is pulled from dl.google.com and that all it does is decompress it and rebuild it as a tar.xz package.
Additionally, the AUR is about as curated as Google Play, and I trust Google Play exceedingly more than random download links on the Internet. You can audit AUR packages via its rating, the number of comments it has, its popularity, and the website enables you to flag packages as malicious, the same way you would flag APKs on Google's service.
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#109This is almost surely not content hosted on Google.com, but content hosted on sites which Google redirects to. If Google serves a single malicious site as a linked result (or in a redirect) it will flag Google.com as hosting malicious content. This has been the case for years now, also for other Google properties, like Youtube and DoubleClick.
Right, but it's still odd that other Google TLDs (as reported in this thread) are not flagged.
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#110> Attackers on this site might try to trick you to download software or steal your information Thats an awful description of googles business model, but partly true...
Well I tried to download chrome yesterday, and you STILL get www.downloadchromenow.com and other spam site adverts at the top of the results, which absolutely serve malware/spyware Until they sort out their ads it's true, it is a dangerous site
Can you try again and post a screenshot of your results?