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Like the other peer comments, this does not show up for me. I'm afraid there's a good chance you already have some malware (or at least a rogue extension) that
by woogley 10y ago
Like the other peer comments, this does not show up for me. I'm afraid there's a good chance you already have some malware (or at least a rogue extension) that is inserting ads into your pages.
- emodendroket 10y agoHow would you know? The results are different for everyone, aren't they?
- woogley 10y agoThere's some conjecture involved but I would be very surprised if Google actually sold AdWords for their own browser.
- anon1385 10y agoThey certainly have done in the past: http://i.imgur.com/yVIMYKO.png http://i.imgur.com/yVIMYKO.png Taken from a comment I wrote a couple of years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7335401 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7335401
- ceejayoz 10y agoDeliberately? No, of course not. They can't just ban the word "Chrome" from AdWords, though. Spammers/malware authors are very good at figuring out what's needed to slip through the automated systems.
- MichaelGG 10y agoThey've done this for Skype too. And the funnier thing is when I reported it to Skype, they claimed it was "OK" because it said TOM in the description (Skype's Chinese sponsor). Except the link did not have anything to do with Skype or TOM.
- nitrogen 10y agoAlso important tools like PuTTY.
- sp332 10y agoFor this search, there is exactly one ad. It's from Google and goes to the official site.
- anon1385 10y agoI've been testing these kinds of searches every now and again for a few years now (and complaining about it on HN regularly). The malware ads are generally intermittent and won't show all of the time. That doesn't mean they don't exist. I can assure you that for many years Google has been serving ads that link to malware for search terms like "firefox". I've seen them across different machines, different browsers, different ISPs, different OSs. The situation with firefox seems better now but only because Mozilla is seemingly buying up all the ads for searches with "firefox" in. Here's a post about it from a year and a half ago that also links to several earlier posts along the same lines: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8879229 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8879229
- ethbro 10y agoCurious thought experiment: Wouldn't malicious actors always be able to profitably bid more than legitimate companies for AdWords? Assumptions: - Illegitimate business models are more profitable than legitimate ones
- eximius 10y agoThat is a very big assumption that may hold for Browsers but not many other products. And even if illegitimate models are more efficient, a big business can afford a money sink for PR.
- bob17 10y agoI recently read that AdWords charges much less if your site is already at the top of the organic search results, or something similar that.