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At least a little bit of criticism should go to Google Search as well. Isn't it their mission to show users useful search results? Is there any user that would
by mysterypie 7y ago
At least a little bit of criticism should go to Google Search as well. Isn't it their mission to show users useful search results? Is there any user that would prefer the fake malware site over the legitimate site? KeePass is a popular piece of software, not an obscure item to search for. And it seems like it's been going on for many months, plenty of time to make Google's algorithms respond (if they wanted to).
- hombre_fatal 7y agoOne of the incredible perks of getting your phishing/malware site on the .com tld of your target website is the amount of people who will visit your site directly without even going through google. Also, in my experience, Google is very receptive to and decisive on phishing and malware complaints. I've worked on websites that are constant phishing/malware targets and Google moved quickly with us on getting that "this is a malicious website" splash page into Chrome. Since this has been going on for a year, I'd be shocked if the Keepass people even tried. Not even a mention of it on their homepage to help their users pick the legit one?
- satya71 7y agoI'm sure being mentioned on HN has now pushed the phishing site higher in Google rankings
- slig 7y agoMy take: a considerable amount of users see the .com on SERP, and click on it over the .info. Google algorithm then increases the ranking of the .com even more because that's where users go and stay (i.e, they don't bounce back to the search).