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My daughter wanted some toy, so I Google it, and go to one of the top results for it, thinking it’s a legitimate website. I go through the checkout process, but it’s weird and hanging. And then they text me some “verification code” I’m supposed to enter which is actually my CC code for my account. A total scam. I do some more searches and this is a common scam for this toy. So I cancel our credit card immediately.
But what pisses me off is that this totally fraudulent website was a top results from Google. They could have verified that shit! But instead they chose to serve me up to wolves.
There’s no “They”. There’s nobody home. Nobody’s looking at this shit, it’s all just algorithms and machine learning, there’s nobody customer-facing at Google who’s job it is to vet this crap. Your scammy website passed some set of automated metrics Google uses to determine scamminess, so it’s off to the front page of search results it goes.
Just because Google doesn’t do it doesn’t mean they can’t. I don’t believe you that they couldn’t implement some automated means of vetting it; it’s just more profitable not to.
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I think this is what makes me the most angry.
My daughter wanted some toy, so I Google it, and go to one of the top results for it, thinking it’s a legitimate website. I go through the checkout process, but it’s weird and hanging. And then they text me some “verification code” I’m supposed to enter which is actually my CC code for my account. A total scam. I do some more searches and this is a common scam for this toy. So I cancel our credit card immediately.
But what pisses me off is that this totally fraudulent website was a top results from Google. They could have verified that shit! But instead they chose to serve me up to wolves.
There’s no “They”. There’s nobody home. Nobody’s looking at this shit, it’s all just algorithms and machine learning, there’s nobody customer-facing at Google who’s job it is to vet this crap. Your scammy website passed some set of automated metrics Google uses to determine scamminess, so it’s off to the front page of search results it goes.
Just because Google doesn’t do it doesn’t mean they can’t. I don’t believe you that they couldn’t implement some automated means of vetting it; it’s just more profitable not to.