Alright, I have to mention this because it is so absurd. There were NSFW results when I searched results from this week for “power9 talos” in Google yesterday. I reported it and Google has since removed it from their results, but I still can’t imagine who thought it was a worthwhile idea to spam IBM CPU searches with porn games.
The page Google cached was a paragraph with a bunch of half sentences mentioning POWER9 CPUs and The Four Hundred (an IT blog site with articles about POWER9), and this was the snippet that showed under the search result; if you clicked on the result in Google though, it would redirect you through a bunch of pages to a porn game ad.
My guess is there has to be an bot out there that ingests random news and spits out a page that’s just barely enough to fool Google; it looks like earlier this year @Smerrillssaw something similar, though in my case it was only two links, not four.
Has anyone seen these sorts of spam results?
Any idea who runs these porn spam bots?
For me google “power9 talos” came up with clean links. While google likes to feed the beast with more of the same. Could It be someone on your IP is a porn hound ?
Through a VPN and startpage this is what the google query looks like.
So either:
Google has resolved the issue
you or someone on your network has a colorful search history.
Although, it is possible someone did a lot of link-backs to the porn game from other websites and caused the search results for other things to be skewed. This used to happen a lot when people tried to increase their SE ranking.
Classic infection. Could be as simple as the host file has been modified. Probably full blown infection. Get av to do a scan or reload. Also check if you have a good dns. Could be a nasty dns server
I reported it to Google, that’s why it’s no longer there.
@DeltaTech If it’s an infection, it’s on Google’s end; as I mentioned the cached copy had a paragraph of SEO gibberish, but if you aren’t the Google crawler, it just redirects you through an ad network.
Both links had similar URLs, so it might have been the same server with VHosts, but it looked like it was made for this kind of spamming.
I was at work on break, so I didn’t look into it too deeply besides reporting it to Google and checking Google’s cached copy. I remember a portion of the URL near the ? was fairly unique, so I could have added it to my adblocker, but by now its been removed.
I know I’m late to this party, but I had the same issue around that time too. I was looking up Power PC stuff. Same thing happening. Like in my last post about this similar problem, and yours.
I guess just reporting to Google is the best you can do at the moment. Funny to see though that the same kinds of problems they had with the crawler back in the early 2000’s, is happening all over again, nearly 20 years later haha.
