Google began rolling out its Generative Search Experience (GES) earlier this month. The company boasts that this feature allows users to ask complex and more descriptive questions, with generative AI offering textual summaries of sites and recommendations similar to a user’s search.
This may seem helpful, but search engine optimization representative Lily Ray discovered that something was in Google EMS. According to his article in X, SGE recommended potentially malicious sites as part of its responses. Ray’s query about Pitbull puppies for sale on Craigslist yielded recommendations. on various harmful and fraudulent sites that may also involve malware.
BleepingComputer points out that all of the suspicious effects indexed through SGE tend to use the same Arrayonline domain, HTML templates, and sites to perform redirects, indicating that they are part of the same search engine optimization poisoning crusade that allowed them to be part of Google’s index. .
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