One Every 200 Google Search Suggestions Is Polluted

guest · Mar 19, 2018

One Every 200 Google Search Suggestions Is Polluted
March 19, 2018
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/one-every-200-google-search-suggestions-is-polluted/

One of every 200 Google search autocomplete suggestions are poisoned and are used to drive traffic to misleading sites, to malware, or other malicious content, a team of academics from three US universities has discovered.

"We found that manipulating suggestion has already become a booming business, with tens of services available online," researchers said.

Some services use special tools that automate search queries in headless browsers spread across different IP addresses, while some services use human operators. Prices range from $1 to $20 per day, per the table below. [...]
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