HACKER Q&A
📣 akasakahakada

Am I the only one that has broken Google search results?


I have noticed that google search resulting hamful/phishing/fake/fraud websites in recent month.

No matter what I search, those junks keep showing up.

They are all with different url and look legit like .gov, .br, .com, .edu etc. Some even mimic real company by only differing 1 character in the domain. But those are not real, when you click that it will just redirect to the scam site.

One common characteristic is that most of them are non titled website. Google search will tell me that the page has no title. And the preview beneath that are all random garbage that are copied from random sites by bot.

With a little search, it seems that I am being DNS hijacked. But using 3 different devices and networks, I can confirm that the weird behavior is consistent.

WhoIsMyDns.com reports that my DNS are all from cloudflare.

What is going on?


  👤 RGBCube Accepted Answer ✓
Yes, it was the same for me, Google results are pure garbage now.

I switched to Yandex, have been loving it since, it is so much less biased and provides stuff related to your search query. It reminds me of Google from 2017. Though, I can't talk about the results for Russian searches as I don't know Russian, maybe those ones are biased.


👤 puttycat
There are multiple subjective reports of Google search quality going down the toilet in recent months/years, probably due to multiple reasons (SEO, AI), but I haven't seen this kind of report.

👤 revskill
Yes. Basically i can't find any new websites anymore. The top pages is always bullshit pages which served by ads.

👤 dennis_jeeves1
You are correct mostly google search does not work any more.