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As an advertiser, you can write whatever you want into the url displayed there. This does not need to match the real target.

• ridiculous_fish 6y ago
  But the real target is google.com. I just made https://sites.google.com/view/whalefacts https://sites.google.com/view/whalefacts, took me literally ten seconds, confirmed it was accessible from multiple IPs and multiple browsers. Google wants to be a content host and an ad broker and a search engine. Each of these is reasonable in isolation. Yet you can search on google, and Google will serve you an ad linking to a google.com site, and that site scams you out of money. This isn't theoretical, I know because my family was hit. Screenshot if it gets taken down: https://i.imgur.com/T6hVHr5.png https://i.imgur.com/T6hVHr5.png
  • kzrdude 6y ago
    Super boring answer, and this is not an admonition to you, but in general; shouldn't this lead to lawsuits? It needs to be tried in court.
  • iso1631 6y ago
    I'm confused, that's sites.google.com, the URL says that, and it's right, what's the problem?