Was looking for instances for Librephotos and came across sites like this. As you can see these sites contain the same type of information taken from official sources. If you click on the link, you will be redirected to a blank google search page.

What is all this done for?

  • @simple@lemm.ee
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    645 months ago

    AI-generated spam. They fill the website with (potentially malicious) ads and try to profit off people that accidentally click the link thinking it’s a real website. It’s the main reason search engines have been terrible to use lately.

  • slazer2au
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    225 months ago

    Fake ad clicks or views. I would guess it loads some ads in a tiny IFrame then redirects you to google so Google doesn’t get suspicious by one site loading a tonne of ads every few seconds

  • Bonehead
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    175 months ago

    Any time you see what looks like an auto-generated name for a website, or at least a website URL that doesn’t actual form a word, it’s a scam. Automatically. Every single time, it’s a scam. Stay away from that site. Don’t click on it, don’t hover over it, don’t even think about it, because before you know it they have access to your bank account. Just don’t risk it…

  • @A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Farming ads, delivering malware, stealing credentials if you think you are on another site and login/buy something.

  • Presi300
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    135 months ago

    To remind you to stop using google (they are all scams)

  • Sometimes it’s SEO bullshit. Manipulation of site associations and keywords to boost the rankings of other sites they’re associated with. Not for these sites specifically, but some other site. It’s weird and stupid and has to do with trying to reverse-engineer how a search engine ranks its results.

  • Chozo
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    55 months ago

    I’ve been seeing a ton of these sites spamming up Google’s search results lately. It’s super frustrating, and makes it so much harder to find things that I’m looking for. Luckily, uBlock Origin is good about blocking these pages if I accidentally click on one, but still, this is absurd.