> Attackers on this site might try to trick you to download software or steal your information<p>Thats an awful description of googles business model, but partly true...
Good* for Google to spot their own website being not completely safe! Wonder if they did click on <a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/hacked/" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/webmasters/hacked/</a> themselves to see how to get Google.com unhacked.... ;-)
* Actually, I think it IS good that there is no 'whitelist' of domains which are surely safe, and that it checks even the company's own main website.
Related: The blog that announces their new security suite for Chrome, fails the security suite for Chrome. See screenshot <a href="https://twitter.com/lrvick/status/692282829619777537" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/lrvick/status/692282829619777537</a>
Google is at the top of SiteTruth's list of major sites currently being exploited by phishing scams. 37 of them right now.[1] This list comes from a join of PhishTank and Open Directory - sites with some reasonable reputation and an active report in PhishTank. At one time, Microsoft and Yahoo were at the top, but they got better.<p>Any popular free hosting service ends up hosting phishing sites, but Google doesn't aggressively clean them out. Here's Google's oldest phishing site, from 2010.[2] It's an attempt to steal Habbo logins (Habbo is an old virtual world, similar to The Sims.) Lately, phishing via Google Drive is picking up. Phishing sites hosted on Google Spreadsheets have finally disappeared; you can put HTML in a spreadsheet cell and host a site that way. For a long time, Google didn't recognize that this was a way to host a fake site.<p>At least all the fake sites are under Google's subdomains (sites., drive., etc.) There used to be exploits using "google.com" as an open redirector.<p>[1] <a href="http://sitetruth.com/reports/phishes.html" rel="nofollow">http://sitetruth.com/reports/phishes.html</a>
[2] <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/freehabbocoinsgbbo00/" rel="nofollow">https://sites.google.com/site/freehabbocoinsgbbo00/</a>
This is almost surely not content hosted on Google.com, but content hosted on sites which Google redirects to.<p>If Google serves a single malicious site as a linked result (or in a redirect) it will flag Google.com as hosting malicious content.<p>This has been the case for years now, also for other Google properties, like Youtube and DoubleClick.
Even, github.com is partially dangerous.
"Dangerous websites have been sending visitors to this website, including: github.com/mgp25, github.com/racaljk, and github.com/100pcrack"
Duckduckgo.com is not marked dangerous:<p><a href="https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/safebrowsing/diagnostic/index.html?hl=en-US#url=duckduckgo.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/safebrowsing/diagn...</a>
Also 4331 URLs removed from Google index [1] because of DMCA requests sent to Google:
<a href="https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/domains/google.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright...</a><p>[1] <a href="http://domainstats.io/tools/dmca" rel="nofollow">http://domainstats.io/tools/dmca</a>
I think the big problem is that Google does a poor job cleaning up user generated content on their own properties. Google Groups, Google Drive, Feedburner, GoogleSites and Blogspot are continuously used to deliver phishing/malware. It also doesn't help that google sometimes hosts those on it's google.com domain or uses their google.com domain to redirect to those sites.
Funny, everyone knows Google is dangerous.<p>In all seriousness though, they've got one of the largest public facing systems in the world. Given the surface area and traffic volumes, it's surprising that the don't have more issues than they do.
Google.com also fare poorly on its own performance test: <a href="https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=google.com" rel="nofollow">https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...</a>
I really really dislike this. Why does google get to decide which websites are good and which are not. Unless someone subscribes to this service google should do what it does best, search.<p>One day they decide everyone should be mobile friendly, the next day they decide which sites are bad and which are not, what more?<p>Every single day, google is giving me more reason to use alternative search engines.
Google is at a very influential position these days, everything is Google, and Facebook is trying it's damnest to become like Google.<p>Google, for the most parts, is the Internet, chrome, gmail, search engine, android, good lord even walking robots! We are lucky that they g+ failed miserably :D<p>Otherwise we'd not have Internet, we'd have Google, nothing in the world beyond it. Nobody to check it's power, except maybe the EU, but that's their jurisdiction.<p>I recently bought a macbook pro, whenever I visit google.com using macbook I get a small popup -> visit your privacy setting, no other platform did I ever get that popup. They apparently discriminate it. For work we use US network, and there I regularly see that popup, never on an Indian IP that I got that message. Apparently they think Indian's do not care much about their privacy. Too much for Don't be evil.