Google's new AI search results promotes sites pushing malware, scams

BleepingComputer reports that Google’s AI-powered Search Generative Experience (SGE) is surfacing spammy .online domains that redirect users to scams—fake captchas that push browser notification subscriptions, tech support/affiliate ads (e.g., misleading McAfee prompts), fake Amazon/iPhone giveaways harvesting personal data, and unwanted extensions that hijack searches—indicative of a coordinated SEO poisoning campaign using shared templates and redirect infrastructure. Google says it is removing examples under policy, and the article provides steps for users to disable unwanted Chrome notification spam.