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Comment by paulpauper | Hacker News Reader

It's funny how meta actually takes spam somewhat seriously, unlike google.

I was about to order something from a website[1] that showed as first page result on Google Search.

Spending couple of minutes on the site, it became obvious that it is a scam website. Confirmed further by another search on domain[2]. I wanted to report it but there is no easy way to report this. So I gave up and hope no one falls for it.

[1]: https:// littletikes . savemoney . store [2]: https://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=119138.0

You can report phishing sites really easily here https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/?h...

Or alternatively report an abusive google ad here https://support.google.com/ads/troubleshooter/4578507

And likely nothing will happen.

Ymmv but I've got very good results reporting websites to Google safe browsing and them getting blocked.

Every third of fourth technical Google search I try lists about 10 to 20 fake sites. Many of them using .it for some reason, but there are plenty of other TLDs with this problem as well. At this point I'll click a .biz before I click a .it.

I'm not going to report hundreds of domains every month. Google needs to get their crap together.

The same is very much true for other parts of Google as well. Youtube comments are hilariously full of spam. There's a pretty good tool out there to get rid of the spam, which just runs the comments through a basic spam filter, but for big channels you can't let the tool run for too long because of API call limits.

Thank you, I tried to report it from the search page. I clicked on the 3 dots menu. The options were not perfect for this kind of scam reporting but I selected something close enough. Then it took me to another page where there was a huge form to fill out.

It should be easier to report scams or phishing sites from search page, imo.

Google's ignoring spam is especially egregious through side channels, e.g. spammers adding you to Photos message shares.

This is super annoying. I get mentioned in random documents all the time... No idea why

Yes, Google launching .ZIP and .MOV domains is yet another sign of the moral rot at a once ethical company.

“Once ethical”? How far back do you have to go for that? 1999?

I dunno, I feel like you could make that case right up until they merged with doubleclick.

You could, but you cold make it the other way too.

https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...

~~Do no evil.~~

Personally I find .com and .sh to be much worse as it refers to actual executable files.

I've had people open up Facebook and Instagram accounts using my email address. They don't bother with requiring verification to use their services. Before I took over the accounts I'd get periodic notices about "friend" activity but never a nag to verify the e-mail.

Don't they verify by phone number these days

Unless it happens on their own platform, then they dont care

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